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President Prabowo? LSI Survey Says Yes
Ronna Nirmala | February 24, 2012

The Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI) found that Prabowo Subianto, Megawati Sukarnoputri and Aburizal Bakrie were the most popular candidates if the election were held today. (JG Photo) The Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI) found that Prabowo Subianto, Megawati Sukarnoputri and Aburizal Bakrie were the most popular candidates if the election were held today. (JG Photo)
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DrDez
6:19pm Feb 25, 2012

sutan

people have been informing them for a decade or more

Ben.. I implore you to research...


benimaru
10:40am Feb 25, 2012

if there is only prabowo, bakrie and mega on the table, and the choice is between bullet hole on your head or votes,, i might vote for prabowo.


sutaniskandarmuda
8:54am Feb 25, 2012

No-one could 'deserve' this perfidious governance.

Thomas Jefferson recognised that society's ultimate power is most safely held by "the people" ...

'...if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion.'

DrDez
8:17am Feb 25, 2012

PS - it certainly seems true here and also in the UK right now

DrDez
8:17am Feb 25, 2012

Joseph de Maistre (1753 -1821)

said 'every country has the govts they deserve' he also said

'it is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them'

Didn't realise he had cribbed it from the Bible... we learn and live :)

A retired general who has been dogged by accusations of rights abuses came out on top in the latest survey ahead of the 2014 presidential election, as observers and activists dismissed the results and criticized the pollsters.

The survey, conducted by the Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI) from Feb. 1-12, found that Prabowo Subianto, Megawati Sukarnoputri and Aburizal Bakrie were the most popular candidates if the election were held today.

Prabowo, who heads the board of patrons of the Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra), was the choice of 39 percent of the 2,050 voters surveyed. Former President Megawati, chairwoman of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), was at 28 percent and Golkar Party chairman Aburizal had 17 percent.

“If the presidential election were held now, the election would go to two rounds and Prabowo would ultimately be elected president,” said the LSI survey report, released on Thursday. Prabowo would most likely face Megawati in the second round, it added.

Prabowo is a former commander of the Kopassus special forces, which was implicated in a number of rights abuses, though he was never charged.

Usman Hamid, from the Commission on Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras), said the survey ignored the records of the potential candidates.

“It is deplorable that the survey only refers to the popularity of those three names, and not to their programs, platforms or even track records,” he said.

Usman also criticized the survey for only addressing “top of mind” candidates.

“This clearly led to irrational evaluations,” he said,

The LSI survey presented those questioned with a list of 18 candidates and asked them to name their top choice to highlight name recognition.

A total of 17.6 percent of respondents chose Megawati. Prabowo came second with 12.8 percent, former Vice President Jusuf Kalla was third with 9.7 percent and Aburizal had 7.2 percent. In fifth position was Yogyakarta’s Sultan Hamengkubuwono X with 6.3 percent.

LSI executive director Saiful Mujani said that among those candidates who had already intensively promoted themselves as possible candidates in 2014, Prabowo topped the electability list, winning in firmness, intelligence, piousness and good looks.

Aburizal came second and Hatta Rajasa, the coordinating minister for the economy, was third.

Military observer Salim Said said the leading potential candidates were actively promoting themselves, but had the surveyed public known about their track records and weaknesses, the results would have been different.