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Indonesia will once again celebrate their democracy by holding the local government leadership election (Pilkada 2015). Quite different with the previous elections, the election today will be simultaneously hold in most provinces. However, this regulation is not well informed to the society yet. Therefore, by using Jakpat, we will try to map society’s understanding about the election. The survey involved 385 respondents from 12 biggest cities in Indonesia.

As we explained before, the election is not well informed to the society. One assumption concerning the condition is because the society especially youth (subjected as the respondents of this research) are having a less interest toward political issue. The assumption is proven by measuring the awareness of society toward the election. Result of the survey shows that only 34% of respondents are aware of the election. 66% of respondents are not aware of the election and it is a huge number. More than half of the respondents do not even know about the election.

Besides understanding their awareness toward the election, we also would like to map respondents’ awareness toward the candidates. In line with the awareness of the event, most respondents also do not aware about who are their own local candidates. Only 43% of the respondents know the name and figure of the candidates, while the other 57% knows nothing. However, their lack of awareness toward the candidates could possibly cause by the limited number of promotional media around their residences.

Concerning their intention to vote and support, 64% of the respondents confess that they do not know which candidates to choose in the upcoming election. Only 36% of the respondents already have the choice. When Jakpat asked them about the most important factor to be considered from the candidates, the respondents answered that candidates’ track record of working and their personal collegial relationship with them are the most considerable factors that affect their votes.

Despite their lack of awareness, most respondents surprisingly said that they would like to participate in the upcoming election. More than half of the respondents would be glad to participate even though they do not know about the candidates well enough. Less number of the respondents said that they do not yet decided about their participation, while the least number already plead that they will not even participate.

As always happened in the previous elections, the candidates always promise for the goods to the society during the campaign. However, as also always happened, only few candidates could fulfil their promises once they have elected. Jakpat also asked to the respondents about their trust toward candidates promises during campaign. As predicted, only 34% respondents said that they trust about the candidates’ promises while the other 66% do not. It is quite ironic to see that most of the respondents do not trust their own soon to be local government leaders so that it is a huge task for the upcoming elected leader to gain society’s trust.

At last, phenomenon of money politic is becoming the most popular topic during any level of elections. Popularity of the issue mostly happened because it will affect the fairness of the election. Jakpat asked the respondents about their perception towards the fairness of the upcoming local election and the result was quite shocking. 58% of the respondents said that they were not sure about the transparency and fairness of the election. Even though they once said that they would like to participate in voting their own leader, they also said that they were not sure about the quality of the election.

For more detail you can download XLS report at the button below. JAKPAT report consists of 3 parts which are 1) Respondent Profile, 2) Crosstabulation for each question and 3) Raw Data. Respondent profile shows you demographic profiles ( gender,age range, location by province, and monthly spending). Cross tabulation enables you to define different demographic segment preference on each answer.

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