The trial for vote recapitulation in Biak Numfor election entered its second stage at the constitutional court, Monday (17/11).

The trial for case No. 37/PHPU.D-VI/2008 was scheduled to hear information from the Petitionees (Biak Numfor Election Commission). In their information, the Petitionees claimed that the Petitioners Legal Counsels did not have the right to have a case in the constitutional court of justice because they were not advocates as required by Act on advocate No. 18/2003.

Due to the fact that there was an improvement of Petitioners Pleading which actually had passed the deadline, the Petitionees claimed, “the Petitioners has ignored Article 6 paragraph (2) Constitutional Court Regulation No. 15/2008 about details on filing a case in a court,” said the Petitionees Legal Counsel, Yohanes G. Bone.

In their information, Biak Election Commission rebutted Petitioners claim that the Petitionees did not publicly announce the recapitulation result of Biak Numfor Election both in printed and electronic media. “We have informed witnesses from each candidate joining the election. However we did not know whether the witnesses informed the announcement to their candidates. We even have spread out (the announcement) in many media in Biak Numfor,” exclaimed the Petitionees.

Also attending the trial, Related Party to the case that was Biak Numfor Election Watchers Committee and Legal Counsel of the winning candidate pair, Yusuf Melianus and Alimudin Sabe. 

The next trial would be held on Tuesday (18/11), at 16.00 WIB scheduled to hear witnesses from each party. (Bayu Pratama Putra/Wiwik Budi Wasito)

Foto: Dok. Humas MK/Kencana SH
Translated by Yogi Djatnika / MK