Poltracking Survey: Free Nutritious Meals Programme Bolsters Public Satisfaction with Prabowo
A Poltracking Indonesia survey records that the free nutritious meals programme (MBG) has become the main pillar supporting the level of public satisfaction with the performance of the government of President Prabowo Subianto and Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka.
“The reason the public is satisfied with the Prabowo-Gibran government, 23% is supported by satisfaction with MBG,” said Poltracking Indonesia’s Chief Researcher Masduri Amrawi in the release presentation on Monday (13/4).
Then, following MBG, there is targeted aid at 13.8% and firm and authoritative leadership at 10.2%.
Masduri assessed that amid controversies and differing views related to the MBG programme, it has actually received quite good attention from the public in general.
In addition to supporting satisfaction, MBG has also become the programme whose benefits are most felt by the community, with a recognition level of 36.5%, surpassing several other priority programmes such as wage subsidy assistance (BSU), free health services, the Indonesia Smart Card (KIP), and the Indonesia Health Card (KIS).
74.9% satisfied with Prabowo
In addition, the survey also released that 74.9% of respondents claim to be satisfied with Prabowo’s performance.
This figure is the accumulation of two satisfaction levels, namely 9% who claim to be very satisfied and 65.9% who claim to be quite satisfied. The survey asked respondents, “What is your assessment of Prabowo Subianto’s performance as the current President?”
“So this is personal satisfaction with the performance of the President of the Republic of Indonesia, as recorded in this data, 74.9% of the public feel satisfied with Prabowo’s performance,” said Masduri Amwari.
From that amount, 23.5% feel dissatisfied with Prabowo’s personal performance. The details are 21.3% who feel somewhat dissatisfied, and 2.2% who claim to be very dissatisfied.
Meanwhile, for the satisfaction level with the performance of the President and Vice President, the figure is slightly lower at 74.1%. The details are 7.6% who claim to be very satisfied and 66.5% who feel quite satisfied.
From that amount, 24.1% feel dissatisfied. The details are 21.4% who claim to be somewhat dissatisfied, and 2.7% very dissatisfied.
The Poltracking survey was conducted over a week from 2-8 March 2025 on 1,220 respondents spread across all provinces with face-to-face interviews.
Respondents were selected randomly using the multistage random sampling method, with a margin of error of +/- 2.9% at a 95% confidence level.