West Java Governor's Approval Rating Hits 95.4 Percent, but Awareness of Key Education Programmes Remains Low

The Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI) has recorded a public satisfaction rating of 95.4 percent for the performance of West Java Governor Dedi Mulyadi, a figure described as fantastic, even though public awareness of the region’s flagship programmes, such as those in education, remains below 50 percent. LSI Executive Director Djayadi Hanan detailed that the satisfaction figure comprised 39.3 percent of respondents who claimed to be very satisfied and 56.1 percent who stated they were quite satisfied. Meanwhile, 3.3 percent of respondents recorded being less satisfied, whilst only 0.5 percent stated they were not satisfied at all, and 0.8 percent answered they did not know or gave no answer. Hanan concluded that the overall level of public dissatisfaction was very marginal, at just 3.8 percent. According to him, the high level of public satisfaction with Dedi Mulyadi’s leadership was triggered by three main factors: a positive assessment of governance (60.2 percent rated it good), a perception of relatively stable or moderate economic conditions (44.3 percent), and the performance of basic public services on the ground. The aspect receiving the highest appreciation was infrastructure development and basic services, whereas the economic sector remains the main challenge for the government, even though more than half of the respondents still expressed satisfaction with its performance. He explained that an interesting finding from the survey was a gap in public communication regarding a series of strategic education programmes, such as the New Student Admission System (SPMB), Cooperative Private Schools (SSK), and Superior Human Schools (Maung). The majority of citizens who were aware of these programmes fully supported them, but the level of public awareness of these programmes was still relatively low, not yet reaching 50 percent. The LSI survey was conducted from 2 to 9 July 2026 across 27 regencies and cities in West Java using a multistage random sampling method involving 800 proportionally distributed respondents.