SMRC: Public Satisfaction with Prabowo's Performance Drops 30 Percent

Research institute Saiful Mujani Research and Consulting (SMRC) has revealed that public satisfaction with President Prabowo Subianto’s performance has fallen by roughly 30 per cent over the past nine months.

SMRC Executive Director Deni Irvani explained that public satisfaction with Prabowo’s performance stood at 51.1 per cent in July 2026. Nine months earlier, in November 2025, the satisfaction level had been 81.2 per cent.

Deni said the decline in public satisfaction was linked to citizens’ negative evaluation of the state of the nation. “This fall in public satisfaction is closely related to the erosion of positive sentiment towards the economic, political and law enforcement situation,” Deni said in a press statement on Sunday, 26 July 2026.

Conversely, SMRC’s survey over the same period showed that respondents who felt dissatisfied or very dissatisfied with President Prabowo’s performance had increased. The dissatisfaction level stood at 46.9 per cent in July 2026, compared with around 16 per cent in November 2025.

Deni detailed the findings of the latest survey, conducted from 5 to 19 July 2026: some 4.8 per cent of respondents were very satisfied with the president’s performance, 46.3 per cent were fairly satisfied, 35 per cent were somewhat dissatisfied, 11.9 per cent were not at all satisfied, and around 2.1 per cent did not know or did not answer.

The survey, titled “Economic and Political Conditions and the President’s Approval Rating”, was conducted by SMRC between 5 and 19 July 2026. The survey population comprised all Indonesian citizens eligible to vote in general elections, namely those aged 17 or above or already married at the time of the survey.

A total of 749 respondents were selected at random. Of these, 605 respondents, or 83.8 per cent, who owned mobile telephones were interviewed by phone, while 144 respondents, or 16.2 per cent, who did not own a mobile phone were interviewed face to face. SMRC stated the survey’s margin of error was 3.7 per cent, with a 95 per cent confidence level.