The Relevant Party’s legal counsel M. Athoillah delivering a statement at a follow-up hearing for the 2024 legislative election results dispute of Riau Province, Tuesday (5/7/2024). Photo by MKRI/Ifa.

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JAKARTA (MKRI) — The follow up hearing of the 2024 legislative election results dispute for case No. 198-01-16-04/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024 was held by the Constitutional Court (MK) on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. The session was presided over by Chief Justice Suhartoyo with Constitutional Justices Daniel Yusmic P. Foekh and M. Guntur Hamzah. This petition was filed by the United Indonesia Party (Perindo).

At the hearing, the Petitioner’s legal counsel Hepri Yadi said the Petitioner’s claim of four people not receiving ballots was inaccurate. He said that the difference between the number of valid and invalid votes and the number of ballots used was because some ballots were used but not voted on. These should have been included in the invalid ballot column, but the polling station working committee (KPPS) included them in the unused ballots.

Hepri also confirmed that several voters did not get ballots for the DPR (House of Representatives), DPD (Regional Representatives Council), and Provincial and Regency/City DPRD (Regional Legislative Council) election because they voted using e-KTP (ID cards) with residence listed outside of Riau Province and were not listed in the final voters list.

“So, they were only given ballots for the presidential election. There were thirty-seven special voters at TPS 006 of North Pasir Putih Village. Thirty-one were from North Pasir Putih Village and six were from outside Riau Province. Two names on the attendance list were crossed out by KPPS officers because they were thought to be absent. However, it was later confirmed that they had voted for the presidential election. This information was used to correct the list during the vote recapitulation at Balai Jaya Subdistrict,” Hepri Yadi said.

On the same occasion, Bawaslu’s legal counsel M. Athoilah emphasized that there had been no fraud or data input errors at the subdistrict, regency, or provincial levels because the recapitulation has been conducted by equalizing the documents owned by all election participants and contained on the regency/city DPRD D-result forms.

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Perindo argues that in a letter detailing assessment results to the head of Balai Jaya subdistrict election committee (PPK) of Hilir Regency, Riau Province dated February 24, 2024, the Balai Jaya District elections supervisory committee (Panwaslu) stated that an incident had occurred: during recapitulation there was a discrepancy in the number of voters in the regency DPRD election. It then conducted research on the C-result forms. For the regency DPRD, four voters on the attendance list did not receive ballots; the number of voters should be 154 votes and the total valid and invalid votes were 150 votes.

Thus, the Petitioner requests the Constitutional Court to cancel the Respondent’s version of vote acquisition and order the Respondent to conduct a revote as stated in the petition.

Author               : Utami Argawati
Editor                : Lulu Anjarsari P.
PR                    : Andhini S.F.
Translator         : M. Ariva Aswin Bahar, 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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