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Duke Arie, attorney of the Gorontalo Regency candidate Rustam Akili, interviewed after filing a petition on Friday (18/12/2020). Photo by Humas MK.

JAKARTA, Public Relations of the Constitutional Court—The Constitutional Court (MK) received several petitions of the 2020 regional head election (pilkada) results dispute filed by the election tickets or their attorneys on Friday, December 18, 2020.

The petitioners mostly questioned the organizers’ neutrality, vote inflation, voters mobilization, and the General Elections Commission’s (KPU) disregard for the Elections Supervisory Agency’s (Bawaslu) recommendation that affected the votes acquired by the tickets.

Similarly, on behalf of Kaur Regency (Bengkulu Province) Ticket No. 2 Gusril Pausi-Medi Yuliardi, attorney Mudarwan Yusuf alleged that the organizers were not neutral in the Kaur Regency pilkada. They had allegedly hindered the delivery of the KPU’s decree on the certification of the tickets’ vote acquisition.

Mudarwan said his client had requested Kaur Regency KPU’s official certification document of the tickets’ vote acquisition, but never received it. They claimed this was an effort to hinder the petitioner from filing a petition to the Court.

Mudarwan also said other tickets had mobilized voters from outside of Kaur Regency and that deceased voters were registered as having voted for Ticket No. 1.

KPU Not Neutral

On the same day, the Court also received a petition from Gorontalo Regency (Gorontalo Province) by Ticket No. 4 Rustam Akili-Dicky Gobel. Akili, who came in person with attorney Duke Arie, said the KPU had not been neutral in the Gorontalo Regency election.

He alleged that the KPU had disregarded a recommendation to disqualify Nelson Pomalingo-Hendra Hemeto ticket. He also alleged that the incumbent regent had mobilized state apparatuses (ASN) to vote for them, bought votes, and inflated their votes. The Gorontalo Regency election was also contested by Tonny S. Junus-Daryatno Gobel ticket.

Until Saturday, December 19, 2020, the Court has received 67 petitions on regency election and 8 on city elections both offline and online. Petitions can be accessed online on simpel.mkri.id. The progress of the 2020 pilkada election dispute can be viewed on the Court’s website.

Writer: Ilham Wiryadi
Editor: Lulu Anjarsari
Translator: Yuniar Widiastuti (NL)

Translation uploaded on 12/23/2020 21:09 WIB

Disclaimer: The original version of the news is in Indonesian. In case of any differences between the English and the Indonesian version, the Indonesian version will prevail.

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