REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - The newly elected Governor of Jakarta, Joko Widodo or known as Jokowi, tops the list of young potential candidates for presidential election 2014. Jokowi succeeds in surpassing 34 opponents on the survey conducted by Pol-Tracking Institute.
From interval 1 to 100, Jokowi receives 78.6 scores, while the second, winning 73.2 scores is Anies Baswedan, rector of Paramadina University. Sri Mulyani, the former Minister of Finance and the current Managing Director of World Bank, trails with 70.2.
The score is generated from 13 dimensions; visionary, leadership skill, good communication, capability, intellectual, experience, decision maker, acceptability, and so on. The candidates in the survey are either from political party or not, between 35 to 53 years of age.
Executive Director of Pol-Tracking Institute, Hanta Yuda, said the survey was using feasibility method instead of public opinion. About 100 respondents are involved in this survey.
"The respondents are from expertise, activist of NGOs, public and professional figures, journalist, pollster and political analyst, students, and also senior politicians," he said on Sunday.
Hanta concluded that senior politicians must use political will in their party to provide opportunity for the young figure. Thus, the party can present not only elite electability, but also public electability.