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Approval rating for Indonesian president drastically drops in first 100 days: survey

Xinhua, January 29, 2015 Adjust font size:

The approval rating for the new Indonesian government led by President Joko Widodo in the first 100 days drastically dropped, the results of a fresh survey revealed on Thursday. "Compared to results of survey data in August last year, people' s hope and satisfaction to Jokowi has dropped by 25 percent, from 71.73 percent to 42.29 percent," Adjie Alfaraby, a researcher from the Indonesian Survey Circle (LSI), told a press conference here.

The survey was carried out by LSI to find out people's satisfaction to the present government in the first 100 days governing the nation, a political parameter that has been used in Indonesia to assess the new president's performance.

According to Adjie, people's dissatisfaction to President Widodo came from three key sectors of legal affairs, economy and politics. "The dissatisfactory rates in those sectors were 53.11 percent in legal affairs, 48.71 percent and 49.72 percent in economy and politics sectors respectively," Adjie said.

The president, however, gained people's satisfaction in social and security sectors that stood at 53.86 percent and 57.40 percent respectively, he added.

Citing the results of the survey, Adjie said that the president and vice president have lost the momentum to preserve people's satisfaction to their government.

"It means that they have lost the momentum of change in the first 100 days," he pointed out.

He added those who were not satisfied with President Widodo in the first 100 days of his government came from regions which have been the bases of the president's supporters when he campaigned to win the July 9 election last year.

President Joko Widodo was sworn in on Oct. 20 last year to govern the nation until 2019, according to the constitution.

The survey was carried out from Jan. 26 to 27 in 33 provinces across the nation, involving 1,200 respondents. Endi