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Survey finds many still unaware of April 9 election
With the April 9 legislative election rapidly approaching, a recentlyconducted survey has revealed that many people are still unaware of theelection
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ith the April 9 legislative election rapidly approaching, a recentlyconducted survey has revealed that many people are still unaware of theelection.
'As many as 48.23 percent of our respondents knew nothing about the schedule of the upcoming legislative election,' Cirus Surveyors Group research director Kadek Dwita Apriani said on Saturday.
She said the survey result had led them to believe that the election had not been properly promoted. She added that throughout last year, people were only informed that the general election would be organized this year without being told the exact date.
'We included this in our list of questions. Therefore when we asked them when the election was 90 percent of them answered that it would be held this year but few of them knew the date,' she said on Saturday as quoted by kompas.com.
She said the government still could catch up by empowering the media to tell voters about the exact date.
The survey was organized by Cirus and was conducted using multistage random sampling with 2,200 respondents from all 33 provinces across the country. It was conducted from February 20-26 this year.
The confidence level of the survey was deemed to be 95 percent with a margin of error of less than 2 percent. It was co-sponsored by Republika daily newspaper. (tjs/dic)
