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Petitioner\\'s witness Amran A. Pandawa giving statement in a further hearing of the 2019 DPR-DPRD PHPU of North Maluku Province on Wednesday (24/7) in the Panel 3 Courtroom of the Constitutional Court. Photo by Humas MK/Teguh.

JAKARTA, Public Relations of the Constitutional Court—The Constitutional Court (MK) held the 2019 DPR-DPRD (House of Representatives-Regional Legislative Council) legislative election results dispute (PHPU) hearing of West Java Province on Wednesday (24/7/2019). The hearing, presided over by Constitutional Justice I Dewa Gede Palguna, with Constitutional Justices Suhartoyo and Constitutional Justice Wahiduddin Adams, heard the statements of the experts and witnesses for the Petitioners, Respondent, and Relevant Parties.

Previously, the Crescent Star Party (PBB) in Case No. 90-19-32/PHPU.DPR-DPRD/XVII/2019 questioned vote acquisition in the electoral district (dapil) ofTernate City, the allegation of ballot destruction that had harmed the Petitioner as well as the use of the special voters list (DPK) forms that exceeded the number of voters. Petitioner’s witness Sabillarasyad Djali stated that the use of DPK was still within reasonable limits in North Ternate District. This had an impact on the votes obtained by the Petitioner. Constitutional Justice Suhartoyo also asked about the Petitioner’s vote acquisition being reduced. "I did not bring the data and forgot to," Djali answered via video conference.

Djali said, his camp had reported it to the subdistrict election supervisory committee (Panwascam), but there wasn\\'t enough time for a recount (PSU) for all votes in the subdistrict. So, he tried to solve it in the Constitutional Court.

"We also protested at the plenary session of the Ternate KPU [General Elections Commission]. We also submitted an objection letter there. However, the report to Bawaslu [Elections Supervisory Agency] was only verbal," he explained as a witness at the subdistrict level.

Another witness for the Petitioner, Amran A. Pandawa, said that the recount was only for three ballot boxes, when broken ballots were founded belonging to the PBB candidate. His camp reported it to Panwascam, but not in writing.

The broken ballots were dismissed by Idham as the KPU witness. He stated that there were no broken ballots. However, he explained they were 45 invalid ballots. "Broken ballots are those that are torn. Meanwhile, invalid ballots are [characterized by] more than one mark on the ballot papers," he explained.

This was confirmed by the Respondent\\'s witness, Suwarno. He stated that there were no broken ballot papers, but 45 invalid ballots were found because they were marked on more than one party.

Regarding the special voters list (DPK), Suwarno said there were no problems. The matter questioned by the Petitioner was an accumulation of 14 villagesin North Ternate Subdistrict. "The names registered in the DPK were also registered in the DPT [final voters list] because there was no verification while voting by using ID cards," said Suwarno, Ternate City KPU Commissioner.

The hearing also heard case No. 41-13-32/PHPU.DPR-DPRD/XVII/2019 submitted by the People\\'s Conscience Party (Hanura) and individual Sugiyanto Marsaoly. (Arif Satriantoro/LA/RD)

Translated by: FS/YW

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