A Panel 3 hearing for case No. 01-36/PHPU.DPD-XXII/2024 on the 2024 legislative election result dispute presided over by Constitutional Justices Arief Hidayat, Anwar Usman, and Enny Nurbaningsih to hear the Respondent’s response and Bawaslu’s statement, Monday (5/6/2024). MKRI/Bayu.

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JAKARTA (MKRI) — The Constitutional Court (MK) held a follow-up hearing on the 2024 DPD (Regional Representative Council) election result dispute on Monday, May 6, 2024. The case No. 01-36/PHPU.DPD-XXII/2024 was filed by Shania Moningga Hindom, DPD candidate No. 5 of the electoral district (dapil) of South Papua Province.

The case was heard by Panel 3, consisting of Constitutional Justices Arief Hidayat, Anwar Usman, and Enny Nurbaningsih. The agenda included hearing the response of the KPU (General Elections Commission) as the Respondent as well as statements of the Bawaslu (Electoral Supervisory Agency) and other relevant parties.

The KPU member present at the hearing delivered the Respondent’s response in the a quo case. “In its exception, the Respondent stated that the Petitioner’s petition is unclear or obscuur libel,” said Idham Holik.

The KPU disclosed that Moningga Hindom was not candidate No. 5 for the South Papua Province DPD in 2024, but was a Central Papua Province DPD candidate based on the KPU Decree No. 1563 of 2023, dated November 23, 2023.

The Petitioner’s claim that their vote acquisition in the D result forms at the district or subdistrict level was 115,000 votes differs from the Respondent’s calculation, which was 34,868 votes. On this basis, the Respondent argued that the Petitioner’s petition is ambiguous, unclear, and incomplete.

According to the Respondent, the correct vote acquisition for the Petitioner in electoral district 8 of Central Papua based on the D Result forms for the Central Papua DPD in 8 regencies/cities totaled 34,868 votes. Based on this explanation, the Respondent requested the Court to grant all of the Respondent’s exceptions in their entirety and declare the Petitioner’s petition inadmissible.

“The Respondent requests the Court to declare all KPU decrees related to the a quo case that the Petitioner’s vote acquisition is 34,868,” concluded Idam Holik.

Meanwhile, Bawaslu stated that the Petitioner acquired 34,868 votes. “Regarding the difference in vote acquisition calculations between the Petitioner and the Respondent, there were no specific events that occurred. The Petitioner’s vote acquisition is 34,868 votes,” emphasized Bawaslu member Markus Madal.

Also read: Candidate for DPD Member of South Papua Province Claims 115 Thousand Votes

Author         : Siti Rosmalina Nurhayati
Editor          : Nur R.
Translator    : Naomi Andrea Zebua, 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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