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Prabowo leads race, but all candidates vying for university students: Survey
Student organization membership affects voter electoral preferences among first-time voters, a recent survey from UGM has found.
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A polling committee member shares information about the 2024 general election with several students on Aug. 14, 2023, in an event in Badung, Bali. Badung regency General Elections Commission (KPU) woo first-time voters to cast their vote during the elections. (Antara/Fikri Yusuf)
Presidential hopeful Prabowo Subianto leads the race among university students, whose political preferences are largely influenced by off-campus student groups, indicating the large influence these organizations have on young people, a recent survey has found.
The survey was carried out by the Research Center for Politics and Government (PolGov), a research body under the Gadjah Mada University’s (UGM) School of Social and Political Science, and examined 719 students across 31 universities in 29 provinces, many of whom were first-time voters.
Prabowo was at the top, with 17.92 percent of those surveyed between July 24 and Aug. 7 responding that they would vote for him.
He was followed by Ganjar Pranowo, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle’s (PDI-P) presidential nominee, with 13.96 percent. Opposition figurehead Anies Baswedan was in the last place with just over 10 percent.
The majority of respondents, however, said they either had yet to decide or preferred not to disclose the information.
PolGov also ran a simulation that only accounted for presidential preferences based on the respondents’ familiarity with each presumptive candidate.
Prabowo still came out on top of Ganjar, with 30.19 compared with Ganjar’s 30 percent. Anies still languished in third in the simulation, garnering 20.38 percent.
