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The Petitioner\\'s witness Firman Hidayat (Chairman of Samarinda City KPU) giving a statement in the 2019 DPR-DPRD PHPU hearing of Samarinda City on Tuesday (30/7) 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 on Tuesday (30/7/2019). At the hearing, the Petitioner\\'s witness revealed additional votes to Samarinda DPRD candidate Novran Syahronny at several polling stations (TPS).

The hearing was held in the Panel 3 Courtroom on the fourth floor of of the Constitutional Court. The panel of justices was led by Constitutional Justice I Dewa Gede Palguna, with Constitutional Justices Suhartoyo and Wahiduddin Adams.

The Case No. 182-04-23/PHPU.DPR-DPRD/XVII/2019 was submitted by the Golongan Karya Party (Golkar). The petition was an internal dispute between fellow Samarinda City DPRD candidates from the Golkar Party, Muhammad Yunan Kadir and Mohammad Novran Syahronny. They competed in the elections for the Samarinda City DPRD seat of the electoral district (Dapil) 4.

The Petitioner’s witness Erik Dwi Yuli Harianto stated the additional votes were for candidate M. Novran Syahronny in Samarinda Hulu Sub-district. Novran received additional 74 votes  in four polling stations in the sub-district.

"I discovered this in the vote recapitulation at the city level. I was told by a witness who participated in the event," he explained as a witness to the Sub-district polling committee (PPK) of Samarinda Hulu. He said that there were objections about the votes but it was said to take it to the Constitutional Court.

Samarinda City KPU Chairperson Firman Hidayat denied it. He stated that the DB1 form had matched the DA1 form. In addition, Golkar Party\\'s witness had signed an agreement during the recapitulation at the city level. "I directly presided over the meeting," he added.

Firman added there was an objection from Golkar’s witness. But, the protest couldn’t be processed because it was not based on the C1 form."This was what Bawaslu [the Elections Supervisory Agency] said during the recapitulation process at the city level," said Firman. So, Bawaslu did not see anything wrong in the vote count, he said.

Similarly, the Respondent’s witness dismissed the Petitioner\\'s allegation because the vote tally process had been checked and no errors were found. "The C1 Plano and DAA1 forms had been compared during recapitulation in the sub-district," he said.

Besides the above case, the hearing also heard case No. 04-08-22/PHPU.DPR-DPRD/XVII/2019 submitted by the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) in East Kalimantan Province (Kaltim). (Arif Satriantoro/NRA/RD)

Translated by: FS/YW

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