The Constitutional Court (the Court) announced the Decree of Dairy Election Commission (the Commission) No. 37/2008 dated December 13, 2008 about the Announcement of Elected Candidate in Dairi Second Round Election, because the entire claims from the Petitioner, Parlemen Sinaga and Budiman Simanjuntak (Candidate Pair No. 4), were unreasonable and could not be proven legally. That was announced in the decision readout trial for case No. 60/PHPU.D-VI/2008, Monday (12/1), at the Court s Plenary Room.

The Court stated that the Petitioner s arguments and legal grounds supported by the information from Petitioner s witnesses was not accurate as well as unproven by the law. “The Petitionee is able to put forward the contra evidences and rebut the Petitioner’s legal grounds,” revealed Constitutional Justice M. Arsyad Sanusi.

On the suspicion that there had been money politics and abuse, according to the Court, it was the domain of the Election Watcher Committee to deal with. Besides, the money politics could not make sure to which candidate the votes went. Besides that, the suspicion of money politics towards the 1,003 people did not affect the total votes of the Elected Candidate.

Regarding the Petitioner s objection about numerous misconducts concerning the Citizenship Number, both double and manipulated Numbers, according to the Court, it was not accurate nor did it did have a legal ground either. The Court reminded that the requirement for voters to assess their right in every vote center was not based on the Citizenship Number.

“The Court stated that the Citizenship Number was not the legal requirement for voters in deciding the legality of their status in the election and it does not have to be equal to the total number of registered voters because the citizenship administration has not been well-organized throughout Indonesia and there are still people who do not have the Citizenship Number,” explained Arsyad.

Besides that, the Court stated that the data brought by the Petitioner was not the official one but their self-made, therefore the truth of the arguments and the reasons from the Petitioner couild not be proven legally and convincingly. (Luthfi Widagdo Eddyono)

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Translated by Yogi Djatnika / CCRI