Jakarta – The Association of Indonesian Public Opinion Surveys Firms (Persepi) completed its audit of the Strategic and International Studies-Cyrus Network (CSIS-Cyrus), Indikator Politik (Political Indicator), the Indonesian Survey Circle (LSI) and the Saiful Mujani Research Center (SMRC) on the morning of Tuesday July 15.
The results, the four survey institutions who conducted a quick count of the July 9 presidential election were declared to have used valid survey methodologies.
“Those institutions are okay. There wasn’t any problems with the CSIS-Cyrus, the LSI, the SMRC and Indikator. In terms of the audit they’re all clear”, said Persepi ethics council chairperson Hamdi Muluk at the Sari Pan Pacific Hotel in Jakarta, on Tuesday July 15.
Muluk said that in terms of the process of carrying out the quick count all of the institutions have been found to be quite in order. Muluk said they were able provide an explanation of the preparatory stages, training of personnel through to regional coverage.
In addition to this, [with regard to] the enumerators [census takers] that were distributed at thousands of polling stations (TPS) in Indonesia, said Muluk, their identities and activities in the field were also able to be substantiated.
“Their samplings were good and okay, so for the moment there’s nothing wrong. The relative samplings were correct”, he said.
Earlier, Persepi’s ethics council consecutively audited the CSIS-Cyrus, the LSI, the SMRC and Political Indicator. Overnight the council audited the Populi Center although Muluk declined to reveal the results. According to Muluk, all of the results will be officially announced on Wednesday July 16.
As has been reported, Persepi finally carried out an audit of the survey intuitions who conducted quick counts after the debate over the differing results. The majority of survey institutions declared the presidential ticket of presidential candidate Joko Widodo and vice presidential candidate Jusuf Kalla as winning the election.
Only the Indonesian Survey Network (JSI), the Nusantara Survey Institute (LSN), the Indonesia Research Center (IRC) and the Strategic Development and Policy Research Center (Puskaptis) declared different quick count results, namely a victory for presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto and vice presidential candidate Hatta Rajasa.
[Translated by James Balowski for the Indoleft News Service.]
