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View all search resultsVoters tired of political dynasties: Survey
Nearly 61 percent of the total 553 respondents of a Kompas poll have said they do not like the idea of family members of political leaders running for top regional positions.
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any Indonesians are fed up with Indonesia's thriving political dynasties, a recent survey by the Research and Development Department of Kompas daily has revealed.
Nearly 61 percent of the total 553 polled respondents said they did not like the idea of family members of political leaders running for regional head posts.
Around 28 percent of them regarded political dynasties as normal practice and part of the democratic process in Indonesia, the world's third-largest democracy.
The remaining 11 percent said they did not know what political dynasties really meant, according to the survey results cited by kompas.com.
The survey, conducted via phone interviews from July 27 to July 29, further revealed that 58 percent of the participants wanted a regulation to limit or altogether bar family members of public officials from running in regional elections.
Around 35.8 percent of them did not agree with such regulation, while 6.2 percent chose to abstain.
Attempts to limit the growth of political dynasties have occurred in the past. In 2015, for instance, the House of Representatives passed the Regional Elections Law, which barred family members of an incumbent from running for a regional head post.
