The United Party of Indonesia or SRI Party’s petition on Legislative Election Act have run aground after the Court decided to reject the petition which demands that all parties that have been officially recorded in Ministry of Law and Human Right can directly be contesting automatically without going through the verification process. The Court argued that the clause relating to the procedures for the registration of political parties as participants in an open election is the policy of former Act law.

Determination of the party is eligible or ineligible as a participant by the Election Commission is a command which is a translation of the Act 1945 so that such a case does not conflict with the 1945 Constitution. This answer Petitioner’s argument that claims that all political parties have essentially through a verification process when registering on Ministry of Law and Human Right, so verification is carried out by the Commission felt no need to do because it seems to put the Commission in a higher position than the holder of sovereignty, namely people. Granting authority contesting the determination of the Commission had actually seized the sovereignty of the people who then hand it over to institutions that are non-Elected agency and the Commission should be authorized only on a technical level purely administrative.

But ultimately the decision of the Court in once again rejected all arguments and claims the Petitioner, as the Court considers such provisions do not violate the rules of the constitution. The Court had previously rejected a similar check and that also uses the same juridical construction. "Reject the applicant’s request," said Akil end the trial verdict. (Julie / mh)