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Most Indonesians still unsure about Trump, survey says

A survey from a Europe-based think tank suggests that most Indonesians are still unsure about how the upcoming second presidency of Donald Trump will affect the current geopolitical situation.

Yvette Tanamal (The Jakarta Post)
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Most Indonesians still unsure about Trump, survey says Supporters of United States president-elect Donald Trump hold a banner and flags on Jan. 10, 2025, the day of a sentencing hearing in the criminal case in which he was convicted in 2024 on charges involving hush money paid to a porn star outside of New York Criminal Court in Manhattan in New York City, the US. (Reuters/Eduardo Munoz)

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he majority of the Indonesian public is still unsure about how a second Donald Trump administration in the United States would affect Indonesia and the current geopolitical landscape, although many also think that Americans will mostly benefit from his second term, as suggested by a recent survey.

While they are optimistic that the US will either maintain or increase its global influence under the Republican president, the Indonesian respondents also believe that it will fall behind China as the world’s strongest nation in the next two decades.

The survey, titled “Views in a Trumpian World”, was launched by think-tank European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) to measure how the international community felt about a second Trump presidency in relation to current geopolitical precarities, such as the US-China rivalry, the war in Gaza and Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Over 28,000 people from more than 20 countries were surveyed in mid to late November 2024. For Indonesia, the think tank, in cooperation with Jakarta-based research agency Deka Insight, picked 1,000 respondents from the pool of people selected to reflect the country’s basic demographic proportion based on age, gender and location. 

The selected respondents live in 11 major cities, including the Greater Jakarta area, Bandung in West Java, Banjarmasin in South Kalimantan, Medan in North Sumatra and Makassar in South Sulawesi.

Globally, many countries were optimistic that Trump’s incoming leadership would benefit Americans and bring peace to the world, with such sentiment strongly conveyed by respondents from India, Saudi Arabia, China and Russia.

US traditional allies, such as European countries, the United Kingdom and South Korea, were among the most pessimistic, with the majority of respondents seeing Trump as a potential threat to their countries and the world in general.

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