A public opinion poll for the 2024 Jakarta gubernatorial race has found that two of the city’s former governors, Anies Baswedan and Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama, are the most popular of a set of potential candidates for the position, suggesting that the two politicians, who competed for the job in 2017, could face each other once more in November.

Indonesia will hold its first simultaneous regional elections on Nov. 27, with the governorship of Jakarta, widely seen as a springboard to the presidency, being one of the most sought-after positions.

The survey, released on Tuesday by Litbang Kompas, the research arm of newspaper Kompas, found that Anies and Ahok were the most popular picks to run in November by a wide margin above the other prospective candidates included in the survey.

Anies, who served as Jakarta’s governor from 2017 to 2022, came in first of the more than 20 potential candidates in the survey, favored by 29.8 percent of respondents. He was followed by his predecessor Ahok with 20 percent.

Litbang Kompas interviewed 400 Jakarta residents in person from June 15 to 20, and the results of the survey had a 4.9 percent margin of error at a 95 percent confidence level.

Anies is not affiliated with any political party, but the largest party in the city, the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), has offered him its early support for another run in November.

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