Rikardus Sihura delivering the petition at the hearing on the 2024 DPR and DPRD election results dispute of South Kalimantan Province on Panel 1, Thursday (5/2/2024). Photo by MKRI/Ifa.

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JAKARTA (MKRI) — The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) argues that it should have obtained the fifth seat for the DPR (House of Representatives) in the electoral district (dapil) of South Kalimantan II. However, the KPU (General Elections Commission) as Respondent did not determine the Petitioner as the elected candidate in South Kalimantan II. This was outlined by PDI-P in the petition for the 2024 election results dispute of the DPR and Provincial and Regency/City DPRD (Regional Legislative Council) registered as No. 191-01-03-22/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024. The preliminary hearing took place on Thursday, May 2, 2024 in Panel 1, presided over by Chief Justice Suhartoyo and Constitutional Justices Daniel Yusmic P. Foekh and M. Guntur Hamzah.

The Petitioner’s legal counsel Rikardus Sihura said PDI-P’s failure was due to vote inflation for the National Mandate Party (PAN) in several polling stations (TPS) throughout Kotabaru Regency as many as 807 votes. Based on the Petitioner’s copies of C-result forms, PAN’s vote count was 487 votes, while PDI-P’s vote count certified by the Respondent was 1,294 votes. So, there was 807 votes difference. “This addition occurred in Kotabaru Regency spread across all subdistricts at 49 polling stations in 18 villages,” said Sihura.

According to the Petitioner, there had been an increase in PAN’s votes in several polling stations in Tanah Bumbu by 5,488 votes. According to the Petitioner’s C-result forms, PAN’s vote count amounted to 7,048 votes, while the Respondent certified it as 12,536 votes, so the margin was 5,488 votes in Tanah Bumbu spread across up to 203 polling stations in 29 villages in 6 subdistricts.

In addition, he also explained that there were additional votes for PAN in several polling stations in Banjarmasin totaling 9,395 votes. For this reason, in its petitum, it requests the Court to cancel the KPU Decree No. 360 of 2024 and determine the correct vote acquisition for PDI-P based on the copy of C-result forms according to the Petitioner, which is 89,875 votes. Meanwhile, on the D-result forms it is 89,875 votes, while PAN’s is 262,315 votes.

Author              : Utami Argawati
Editor               : Lulu Anjarsari P.
PR                    : Andhini S.F.
Translator         : Jessica Rivena Meilania, Yuniar W.

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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