Constitutional justices entering the courtroom for the 2020 South Kalimantan Province election dispute hearing for case No. 151/PHP.GUB-XIX/2021, Wednesday (10/6/2021). Photo by Humas MK/Ilham W.M.

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Wednesday, October 6, 2021 | 16:38 WIB

JAKARTA, Public Relations—The Constitutional Court (MK) held another hearing for the 2020 South Kalimantan Province election dispute on Wednesday afternoon, October 6, 2021. The case No. 151/PHP.GUB-XIX/2021 was filed by Khairil Anwar due to indication of vote inflation by the South Kalimantan Provincial General Elections Commission (KPU, Respondent).

At the hearing chaired by Deputy Chief Justice Aswanto, South Kalimantan Provincial Elections Commission (KPU) Sarmuji, who appeared at the Court in person, said the Respondent denied all of the Petitioner’s allegations.

He stressed that the Petitioner’s allegation of the inflation of 4,520 votesin Barabai Subdistrict, Central Hulu Sungai Regency at TPS (polling stations) 13 and 8 of Barabai Darat; TPS 1 and 7 of East Barabai; TPS 5 and 7 of North Barabai; TPS 6, 7, 8, and 9 of West Barabai; TPS 2 of Bukat; TPS 2 of Banua Binjai; and TPS 2 of Ayuang was false.

He said the voting and vote counting at 16 polling stations in the South Kalimantan Provincial Election on December 6, 2020 prior to the Constitutional Court-ordered revote was direct, public, free, confidential, honest, and fair as witnessed by each candidate pair’s witness at the TPSs.

Sarmuji said the witnesses hadn’t raised any objection and the TPS supervisory committee hadn’t made any response or recommendation. The vote counting results had been accepted and signed by the polling station working committee (KPPS) and the candidate pairs’ witnesses, and recorded in the vote counting report and certificate. The C-KWK forms had been handed over by the KPPS to the witnesses and the TPS supervisory committee.

He added that the vote counting recapitulation in Barabai Subdistrict, Central Hulu Regency, South Kalimantan Province had been based on the vote counting report and certificate of the 2020 South Kalimantan Provincial Election and that the C-KWK forms had been through an open plenary meeting witnessed by the candidate pairs’ witnesses and overseen by the Barabai Subdistrict Elections Supervisory Committee (Panwaslu), whose results had been accepted and signed by the subdistrict election committee (PPK) and the candidate pairs’ witnesses.

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Meanwhile, the South Kalimantan Provincial Elections Supervisory Body (Bawaslu), represented by member Nurkholis Majid, said that they hadn’t received any report of violations nor had they handled any finding of violations as the Petitioner alleged.

In addition, Bawaslu had supervised the governor election on June 17, 2020 and based on the supervision at the TPSs by the supervisors, no report of violations was received nor any finding was found.

Also read: South Kalimantan KPU Allegedly Inflated Votes

The Petitioner alleged that 4,520 votes had been inflated in Barabai Subdistrict, Central Hulu Sungai Regency at TPS (polling stations) 13 and 8 of Barabai Darat; TPS 1 and 7 of East Barabai; TPS 5 and 7 of North Barabai; TPS 6, 7, 8, and 9 of West Barabai; TPS 2 of Bukat; TPS 2 of Banua Binjai; and TPS 2 of Ayuang. In the petitum, the Petitioner requested that the Court annul the South Kalimantan KPU Decree No. 37/PL.02.6-Kpt/63/Prov/VI/2021 or order them to certify 870,340 votes for Candidate Pair No. 1 (869,621 plus 719) and 830,490 votes for Candidate Pair No. 2 (828,591 plus 1,899) or to order them to prove 1,968 mystery votes.

Writer           : Utami Argawati
Editor          : Lulu Anjarsari P.
PR               : Tiara Agustina
Translator     : Yuniar Widiastuti (NL)

Translation uploaded on 10/7/2021 07:58 WIB

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

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