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Almost half of Indonesia is unhappy with Jokowi's performance: Survey
Declining: Approval ratings for President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and Vice President Jusuf Kalla are going down, according to the results of a Poltracking Indonesia survey released on Tuesday
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Declining: Approval ratings for President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and Vice President Jusuf Kalla are going down, according to the results of a Poltracking Indonesia survey released on Tuesday. (kompas.com) (kompas.com)
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span class="inline inline-center">Declining: Approval ratings for President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and Vice President Jusuf Kalla are going down, according to the results of a Poltracking Indonesia survey released on Tuesday. (kompas.com)
Indonesians are unhappy with the performance of President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo and Vice President Jusuf Kalla, mostly due to the country's economy, which respondents say has continued to worsen, according to the results of a survey released on Tuesday.
The poll, by Poltracking Indonesia, of 1,200 respondents was aimed at providing insight into the views of Indonesian people about Jokowi's and Kalla's job performance in the first year of their administration.
As many as 48.63 percent of respondents in the survey, taken between Oct. 7 and Oct. 14, said they were disappointed with how Jokowi handled problems since he was inaugurated as the Indonesian president on Oct. 20, 2014. Meanwhile, 49.79 percent of respondents said they were dissatisfied with Kalla's performance since he was elected.
'The trend of the public's satisfaction with Jokowi-Kalla's job performance has declined from their performance over the previous six months,' Poltracking Indonesia director Hanta Yudha said in a press conference in Jakarta on Tuesday.
He said the respondents' satisfaction level with respect to the economy stood at only 22.32 percent, or the worst in comparison with other fields. Their dissatisfaction was related to the government's failure to maintain the stability of the rupiah (68.84 percent), to guard the stability of basic commodity prices (68.63 percent), to reduce unemployment (63.37 percent) and to lower poverty (61.26 percent).
Hanta said that overall the satisfaction level of respondents stood at 44.95 percent. Education and health were two fields the respondents were most satisfied with. He said 59.89 percent of respondents were satisfied with the government's work in the field of education while in the health sector, the satisfaction level stood at 59.57 percent.
The survey also revealed that the public's satisfaction level with Jokowi-Kalla's job performance in four fields, namely politics, safety, law enforcement and corruption eradication, remained unchanged from October last year. (ebf)
