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Fifty percent of Citizens Consider the Decision of Presidential Age Limit to be Unfair
The decision of Constitutional Court (MK) regarding the age limit for presidential and vice presidential candidates is considered unfair by 50% of citizens based on a survey from an Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI)
Released from VOA Indonesia.com, the executive director of the LSI, Djayadi Hanan said that 57.6 percent of the 24 percent of citizens who knew about Anwar Usman, the chairman of the Constitutional Court, who is President Joko Widodo's brother-in-law, considered the decision regarding the age limit for presidential and vice presidential candidates to be unfair. They think that the decision benefits the president's family.
This survey involved 1,229 respondents in early October 2023 with an error rate of less than 2.9%.
The survey result also shows that Prabowo Subiyanto's electability increases slightly if he is paired with Gibran Rakabuming Raka, the son of President Joko Widodo. However, if more and more people know that the chairman of the Constitutional Court is the brother-in-law of President Joko Widodo, it is predicted that support for Prabowo and Gibran will decrease.
Previous survey results showed that the pair Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka outperformed the other two pairs, namely 35.9%. While Ganjar
This survey also shows that there has been a decline in the level of trust in state institutions in the group of respondents who knew about the decision which is considered unfair. Philips J. Vermonte, a political observer from the Indonesian Islamic University, highlighted this phenomenon. He believes that if more people know about the Constitutional Court's decision, more people will distrust democratic institutions. This fact shows the decline of democracy in Indonesia. He also worries that there will be a setback to the democracy that was agreed at the beginning of the reform era.
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