Quick Count: A Problem Solver?

At present, most of National Television Programs use Quick-Count methods in order to show the probabilities of the election winner. Unfortunately, these facts cause some problems such as bias assumption among public. It occurs in Indonesian Presidential Election today, some Television Channels broadcast imbalance portion of election news and Quick-Count results from which might cause chaost in Indonesia Political System. Consequently, the citizen are confused and risky to be provocated by irresponsible parties during the election counting moment.

Regarding to the fact that overwhelming our political surroundings nowadays, it is almost impossible to demolish individual necessity altogether with the cheating culture among those political players. Each party leader is the same person who plays an important role in our govermental area and also run entertainment industries such owning a Television Channel. Moreover, these facts are closely related to what has happened in this country lately. Each TV station stand on their collegue and forget about its main purposes, for instance, they lose a balance power of broadcasting when as a public source of information, TV must provide a balance knowledge to their viewers. Cooperated with some Survey Organisations, they use Quick-Count method to support their presumption about the next president. However, today’s result of this calculation creates sceptical stand point from the citizen. It is supported by the fact when most of TV Stations mentioned the second candidate victory, losing its main purpose, TVOne announced the first candidate victory speech. In addition, this TV channel also showed a significantly different result from the count. On the other hand, his opponent party held a conferrence press in order to declare their victory. All of those temporary and presumable probabilities are made by those who care about power and authority without concerning in people welfare. It can be shown by the way they developed public bias assumption that might be resulted in their lost of trust to Commission of Election, because of the wide range of final result between Quick-Count and Conventional Method of Counting by the Commission of Election. If only both candidates aware about the citizen welfare, they might not try to force their victory within these ridiculous ways of win. According to the fact, this method of Quick-Count only collect and count data from several samples they gained, the result might not be precise enough. First of all, we should realise if this result also has margin of error in 3% . Last result from Kompas Quick-Count are shown in the number 47,5% and 55,5% for the first and second candidates respectively. Second, as a good citizen, we should understand that all of these Quick-Count method of counting are grounded in Sample Data. For example, LSI ( Indonesia Survey Organisation) only gain sample datas from 2000 places of election. Those are different with Commission of Election method of counting, they collect and analyse data from whole places of election in Indonesia. Its margin of error only numbered in 1%, 2% less than Quick-Count one, makes it can be precisely accepted as a real result.

To avoid the chaotic condition in the future, some actions such as develop an integrated method of counting, fix the result and broadcast it in proper and balance portion should be concerned by those National TV Channels. Furthermore, all of the parties in the election and also Indonesian citizen should not rely on Quick-Count result and it should be abolished in order to stabilise our political system. Last but not least, Media and Politic are a new form of demon todays, so we should analyse and observe before we starting to judge and decide.