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The Constitutional Court held a final hearing on the results of the General Election dispute case in South Sulawesi (Sulawesi) with a number 10/PHPU.DX/2013 in Plenary Room, 2nd floor, the Constitutional Court (MK) on Tuesday (19/2).

 

The trial led by Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court, Moh. Mahfud MD this time continued to listen to testimony from Related Party (South Sulawesi Election Commission). A witness named Abdullah denied Petitioners\' witnesses, Jumali and Muhammad Arif, who at an earlier hearing said he was campaigning in mosques and forced to choose number 2 with the threat will not be given poor rice.

 

"The division of funds in the mosque, I do not know, but I know that community support," he added. He also said the distribution of aid to the public ahead of the General Election.

 

At the same time, the Constitutional Assembly also heard expert testimony / witnesses of the applicant as well as experts from Related Parties. Experts from the Petitioners were given an opportunity to testify, that Maruarar Siahaan said that this is an emergency Election democracy. This is because the issue of Election in Sulsel still saw the principle of renewal that occurs in the Constitution of 1945 (1945).

 

According to him, proving the theory has been done in court is that graduation be compared to a football field because it can be assured, shifting the opponent out of the center line and usually it\'s a winner.

 

In addition, he said, there are some propositions to be proved. The proposition in question is the Election Commission (Respondent) diverts support from political parties / coalition of political parties. "The proof is very easy to do, just by the documents, if proven Commission violated the principle organizers," said Maruarar before the judges of the Constitutional Court headed by Chief Moh. Mahfud MD and is accompanied by Constitutional Justice Akil Mochtar and Anwar Usman.

 

Then to the arguments on the issue of racial, Maruarar explained that the issue is dangerous. It is an act of cornering on the 4 pillars of the nation of Indonesia. As for the arguments about the Regent\'s participation in the district, he said that the evidence taken at the hearing is not entirely untrue. "The violence of Regents is concrete evidence in the form of reports and responses from law enforcement," he said.

 

"If the facts are known to be violations of the constitution, especially Article 18 paragraph 4 of Article 22E of democratic elections and then jurisprudence of Constitutional Court (MK), which is a violation of a structured, systematic and massive with which to measure the validity of Election Court to base the cancellation decision," added Maruarar .

 

Meanwhile, Ansyad Mbai, experts from the Related Party as well as the Head of the National Counter-Terrorism Agency (BNPT) explains that, it was the one who have appealed to the public to be vigilant, because in Sulsel Province prone to acts of terrorism.

 

"We have detected that the training undertaken by terrorism in the border area of South Sulawesi Province and Central Sulawesi Province terrorist threat is real and not an issue," said Ansyad. Furthermore, he also said, the issue of SARA is done by those who are not satisfied with the results of the vote count.

 

Earlier, in his petition, Petitioner deliver one proposition which says that the defeat caused by the attempts that use terrorism campaign to win the General Election.

 

At the end of the trial, Mahfud MD asked the parties to submit the conclusions to the Council no later than tomorrow Wednesday (20/2) at 16.00. (Utami Argawati / mh)

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