The petitioner's legal counsel giving testimony in the Preliminary Session of Case Number 06-01-12-11/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024 in the case over the Legislative election results dispute on Thursday (2/5/2024). Photo by MKRI/Bayu.

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JAKARTA, MKRI –The Constitutional Court (MK) held a preliminary hearing of the DPR-DPRD General Election Results Dispute (PHPU) on Thursday (2/5/2024) morning. The session was presided over by Constitutional Justices Arief Hidayat (panel chair), Anwar Usman, and Enny Nurbaningsih

The hearing was held in Panel 3 of the Court to examine Case Number 06-01-12-11/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024. This case was filed by the National Mandate Party (PAN) represented by Zilkifli Hasan as Chairman and Eddy Soeparno as General Secretary for the filling of candidates for Provincial DPRD members in the DKI Jakarta 9 Election District (Dapil) with the object of the lawsuit of the General Election Commission (KPU) Decision Number 360 of 2024.

During the hearing, the Petitioner through his legal counsel submitted a revocation of the case petition. The petitioner's legal counsel conveyed that the request to revoke this case had been signed by the Chairman of PAN, Zulkifli Hasan.

"Your Honor, allow me to take this opportunity to deliver a mandate from the chairman of the PAN regarding the revocation of Case Number 06-01-12-11/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024. In this case, we hope that Your Honor will accept our revocation request which has been signed directly by the chairman of the National Mandate Party," said Moh Fahruddin as the petitioner's legal counsel.

Previously, the petitioner argued that there were fraudulent practices and/or violations that significantly harmed the vote acquisition of the petitioner for the filling of candidates for Provincial DPRD members in the DKI Jakarta 9 constituency, thus benefiting the votes of other parties, namely the National Awakening Party (PKB), the Great Movement Party (Gerindra), the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), the National Democratic Party (NasDem), the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), the Democratic Party, and the United Indonesia Party (Perindo).

The Petitioner in its petition to the Court alleged that the significant increase in votes for other parties in Jakarta 9 constituency came from the use of invalid ballots. These ballots included unused ballots and invalid ballots that were counted as valid ballots by the Respondent (KPU).

Moreover, the Petitioner states that the significant accumulation of additional votes has clearly proven the occurrence of injustice and inequality in the organization of elections. The Petitioner alleges that the Respondent, in filling the Provincial DPRD Membership Candidates in the Jakarta 9 constituency, has clearly indicated and/or should be suspected of committing structured, systematic and massive violations.(*)

 

Author: Adam Ilyas
Editor: Lulu Anjarsari P.

Translator: Siti Nurhaliza

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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