PPI Survey: 65.2% Satisfied with President Prabowo’s Performance

Jakarta (ANTARA) – A recent survey by Parameter Politik Indonesia (PPI) found that 65.2% of 1,200 respondents across Indonesia’s 38 provinces said they were satisfied with President Prabowo Subianto’s performance.

Of that total, 62.3% were satisfied and 2.9% very satisfied, Executive Director Adi Prayitno said at the launch in Jakarta on Sunday of the national survey, “Evaluation of the First Two Years of the Prabowo-Gibran Government”.

Adi said satisfaction with the President’s performance could be assessed across respondents’ regions, age groups, gender, religion, ethnicity, education levels and levels of welfare.

Kalimantan and Sulawesi ranked highest, with 81.3% of respondents there saying they were satisfied with the President’s performance. They were followed by Bali, Nusa Tenggara and eastern Indonesia at 70.9%; Sumatra at 63.1%; Banten, Jakarta and West Java at 65.5%; and Central Java, East Java and Yogyakarta at 57.6%.

By broad region, 70.1% of respondents outside Java were satisfied, compared with 61.4% on Java.

By place of residence, 70.2% of respondents who said they were satisfied lived in rural areas, while 61.4% lived in urban areas.

By welfare category, satisfaction was highest among respondents in the lower-class group, at 75.3%, followed by the lower-middle group at 64.1%, middle-middle at 61%, upper-middle at 35.5% and upper-class at 25%.

By education level, 79.3% of respondents who said they were satisfied had not completed primary school or had received no formal education. The figure was 74.9% among primary-school graduates, 64.3% among junior-secondary graduates, 62.4% among senior-secondary or vocational-school graduates, and 43.2% among university graduates.

PPI also examined satisfaction by respondents’ occupations and political choices.

Among occupational groups, satisfaction stood at 76.3% among farmers; 75% among civil servants and neighbourhood or village officials; 69.4% among homemakers; 62.5% among online motorcycle-taxi riders and drivers; 61.3% among retirees; 59.8% among manual and casual workers; 58.6% among private-sector employees; 55.7% among entrepreneurs and traders; 50% among schoolteachers and fishers; 48.6% among students; and 33% among professionals, including doctors and lawyers.

Among respondents who said they were satisfied with the President’s performance, 73.4% had voted for the Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming ticket in the 2024 presidential election. The figure was 58.1% among voters for Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud Md and 45.3% among voters for Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar.

The PPI national survey, which focused on the first two years of President Prabowo and Vice-President Gibran Rakabuming’s administration, used face-to-face interviews with 1,200 respondents between 26 September and 6 October 2026.

Respondents were aged at least 17 or were married, and were drawn from 38 provinces, 116 regencies and municipalities, 120 subdistricts, and 120 villages or urban wards.

The survey had a confidence level of 95% and a margin of error of 2.83%.