VP Ma'ruf Amin Scores Below Jokowi in IPI Public Satisfaction Survey
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27 April 2022 00:26 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The latest survey by Indikator Politik Indonesia (IPI) revealed public satisfaction towards Vice President Ma'ruf Amin continues to nosedive with 45.2 percent, which is a wide gap compared to President Joko Widodo, or Jokowi, who managed to log 60 percent satisfaction.
The pollster’s executive director Burhanuddin Muhtadi gave his opinion on the matter. “The gap between Jokowi as a President and Ma’ruf Amin as a VP is quite large,” he said in a webinar held on Tuesday, April 26.
The IPI survey was conducted from April 14 to April 19 via in-person interviews of 1,220 respondents randomly picked by the pollster from across Indonesia aged 17 and above and already have the right to vote. Muhtadi claimed this survey has a 2.9 percent margin of error with a confidence level of 95 percent.
He added that this is not the first time the performance of the two figures was separated by a large margin as there would be a 10-15 percent gap between the two in the previous survey. Burhanuddin believes the position of the VP with respect to the President had any relevance to the result.
“This is not about positions, previous administrations with SBY - Jusuf Kalla or Jokowi - Jusuf Kalla, the gaps were not this large,” he elaborated, “Seeing Ma’ruf as a figure, he often spends time behind the scenes.”
One of his analyses seems to suggest that many of the Vice President’s public policies were not exposed by the media.
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