Preliminary hearing of the 2019 DPR-DPRD Election Results Dispute (PHPU) in the Electoral District (Dapil) of the Papua Province on Tuesday (9/7) at the Constitutional Court. Photo by Humas MK/Ganie.

JAKARTA, Public Relations of the Constitutional Court—More case of alleged vote inflation by the General Election Commission (KPU) was revealed, this time by the Petitioners in the preliminary hearing of the DPR-DPRD Election Results Dispute (PHPU) in the Electoral District (Dapil) of Papua Province on Tuesday (09/07/2019) at the Constitutional Court. The third session of the preliminary hearing in Panel 2 was opened at 13.32 WIB by Constitutional Justice Aswanto (panel chairperson) with Constitutional Justices Saldi Isra and Manahan M. P. Sitompul.

The Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI) as Petitioner with petition No. 203-11-33/PHPU.DPR-DPRD/XVII/2019, through attorney Nasrullah, revealed that the General Election Commission (KPU) of Intan Jaya Regency did not implement Intan Jaya\'s Bawaslu (Elections Supervisory Agency) recommendation to conduct a recount due to vote purging.

"Votes purged from PSI resulted in inflated votes for the Perindo Party, the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), the United Development Party (PPP), and the People\'s Conscience Party (Hanura) in several districts," said Nasrullah.

Nasrullah said that on this issue the Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu) had issued a recommendation to recount the votes. However, the recommendation was not implemented by the KPU.

There was another issue related to voting with the noken system in Tolikara Regency. According to another PSI attorney, Heriyanto, although the community has agreed to vote for legislative candidates, there had never been a vote counting recapitulation process. Therefore, the correct results are not known.

In this session, the panel also examined petition Number 111-10-33/PHPU.DPR-DPRD/XVII/2019 submitted by the United Development Party (PPP). PPP\'s attorneys Andi Syamsul and Tantri Maulana questioned the vote counting recapitulation, which affected PPP’s seat in the Tolikara Legislative Council (DPRD). "The purged votes were switched to the Berkarya Party," said Tantri Maulana.

In addition, in the Legislative Election of Tolikara Regency, PPP suffered a loss due to the switch of votes to the Democratic Party and Hanura Party. This causes the PPP votes to decrease.

Another case is the petition submitted by the National Mandate Party (PAN), No. 116-12-33/PHPU.DPR-DPRD/XVII/2019. PAN stated that its vote acquisition decreased at each stage of the vote count. This was due to the switch of PAN\'s votes to the Democratic Party and the Gerindra Party. (Nano Tresna Arfana/NRA/NB)

Translated by: MJK/YW