SP/Yeremia Sukoyo – According to survey results released on Thursday, 42.1 percent of Indonesians said that the legislature had played no role in representing their aspirations.

Of the remainder of respondents, 23.4 percent said the legislature had not done enough to fulfill the will of the public and 34.5 percent said that they were happy with the legislature.

"Almost 65 percent of the people did not feel that the House of Representatives play a role in the production of laws that defend the people's welfare," said Sutisna, data director of the Indonesia Network Election Survey, which carried out the poll.

Over the second half of August, INES questioned 8,280 people in 33 provinces, with a margin of error of 1.1 percent, Sutisna said.

The majority of the public, according to the survey, felt that the legislature produced laws for the benefit of a small group rather than the general public.

The survey was conducted through face-to-face interviews. The findings come on the back of another study that rated the House as among the most corrupt the government institutions, alongside the police force.

Some 89 percent of Indonesian respondents in Transparency International's "Global Corruption Barometer" report, released in July, said they perceived the House as corrupt, second only to the police with 91 percent. Eighty-six percent said political parties were corrupt.