Voxpol survey: The majority of the public disagree that the president must be Javanese

Jakarta (ANTARA) - The latest survey from Voxpol Center Research & Consulting shows that the majority of the public, namely 53.5 percent, do not agree that the president must come from the Javanese ethnic group.

Voxpol Center Research & Consulting Executive Director Pangi Syarwi Chaniago said another 38.3 percent of respondents agreed that the president must come from the Javanese ethnic group. The remaining 8.2 percent of respondents answered that they did not know/did not answer.

"There are still 38 percent who want a Javanese to become president," Pangi said at the survey release event in Jakarta, Friday.

Member of Commission VII DPR RI Adian Napitupulu who was present as a speaker agreed with the survey findings. According to him, the survey results show the quality of democracy in society is getting better.

"Next, people won't ask where your ethnicity is, when you want to fight for society you have the potential to win from that place even though you don't come from that ethnic place," he said.

He considered that the community must be brave in opening up as many opportunities as possible for the possibility of a president who is not only from the Javanese ethnicity as the Indonesian nation's maturity.

"In my opinion, if we are consistent with the Republic of Indonesia, it will happen," he said.

The Voxpol Center Research & Consulting survey conducted on 22 October-7 November was conducted on 1,220 respondents usingmultistage random sampling. This survey has a tolerance or margin of error of around 2.81 percent.

The age of the respondents who were sampled was 17 years and over or married. The data collection technique used was face-to-face interviews directly with respondents using a questionnaire.