The Petitioner's attorney attending the hearing of the 2024 legislative election result disputes of the DPR (House of Representatives), Provincial and Regency/City DPRD (Regional Legislative Council) on Monday (4/29/2024). Photo by MKRI/Bayu.

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JAKARTA (MKRI) — The Constitutional Court (MK) held a preliminary hearing on the Legislative Election Results Dispute (PHPU) case for Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR) members for the Central Papua Electoral District field by the Great Movement Party (Gerindra) on Monday April 29, 2024. The case registered with No. 91-01-02-36/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024 requests the Court to annul General Elections Commission Number 360 0f 2024 and requests a recount (PSU).

Before Constitutional Justices Arief Hidayat, Anwar Usman, and Enny Nurbaningsih, legal counsel Subadria argued that the Central Papua’s noken system had been tainted by structured vote rigging practices. Votes locked by the noken system applied in all districts were purged during plenary meeting at the subdistrict level.

The recapitulation results experience significant alterations from the sub-district to the regency level, and further to the provincial level. During the provincial-level recapitulation plenary session, the votes obtained at the regency level suddenly disappeared.

Subadria as a legal counsel said “votes that have been tied to the noken system in each district are simply removed during the subdistrict level plenary meeting, and the results obtained from the subdistrict-level recapitulation can also change drastically during the regency-level plenary meeting, and so on until the provincial-level plenary meeting.”

Allegations of Administrative Obligations Violations

In addition, the petitioner alleges violations of the procedures for ballot casting and vote counting in Central Papua, especially in areas using the noken/tied system. these violations are suspected to have occurred due to the failure to fulfill administrative obligations as stipulated in General Elections Commission (KPU) Number 66 of 2024.

Specifically, the petitioner explains that the Election organizers didn’t adhere to administrative rules properly. This includes the absence of attendance records and matching vote identities with the voting list, no record of the identities of tribal chiefs and the number of community groups they presents, vote counting not being conducted as it should, vote counting being arbitrarily carried out by the District Election Committee, and the absence of recording the results of vote counting as stipulated in the law and other election-related regulations.

Recount of Votes

The petitioner requests the Court to grant their entire petition, annul Election Commision Decision Number 360 of 2024, and instruct the General Election Commission of the Republic of Indonesia to conduct a recount  (PSU) in the electoral districts of Puncak Jaya Regency, Paniai Regency, Puncak Regency, Dogiyai Regency, Intan Jaya Regency, and Deiyai Regency for the DPR candidates for the Central Papua electoral District.

Author       : Adam Ilyas
Editor        : Lulu Anjarsari P.
PR            : Tiara Agustina
Translator : Siti Nurhaliza, Fuad Subhan (RA)

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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