A follow-up hearing for the 2024 DPR-DPRD election results dispute of Riau Province, Tuesday (5/7/2024). Photo by MKRI/Ifa.

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JAKARTA (MKRI) — Another hearing for the 2024 DPR (House of Representatives) and Provincial and Regency/City DPRD (Regional Legislative Council) of electoral district (dapil) II of Riau Province was held by the Constitutional Court (MK) on Tuesday, May 7, 2024 in the plenary courtroom. The case No. 208-02-04-04/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024 was filed by Mohamad Idris Laena, a DPR candidates from Golkar (Party of Functional Groups).

At the hearing, the Respondent’s (KPU) legal counsel Satria Budhi Pramana said the Petitioner was unable to elaborate on the reasons regarding the selection of several polling stations in five districts instead of the entire polling stations in Riau II. Meanwhile, in his argument, the Petitioner claims that violations have occurred at all polling stations in Riau electoral district II.

“The selection of certain polling stations indicates that the Petitioner has no evidence of fraud in the voting and counting process in Riau II. To trick the Constitutional Court, he displayed the polling stations to make it look as if there was fraud. His arguments are based on assumption because the polling station C-Result copy forms show no change in the Petitioner’s or Golkar’s votes at those polling stations,” he said.

Some agreements were made, especially at TPS 5, 7, and 27 in Kualu Village, Tambang Subdistrict, Kampar Regency. The Petitioner’s arguments could not be proven.

If there had been fraud regarding the voting and vote counting process in every polling station that the Petitioner mentioned, the issue was certainly recorded and verified either in incident/objection forms or on findings and/or supervisory committee reports. However, on the C-copy incident/objection form at the polling stations, no such fraud as the Petitioner alleged had been found.

The Petitioner’s allegation that the Kampar Regency KPU objection form had not been read out at the recapitulation at the provincial level on March 8, 2024 was also far-fetched. The regency D-objection form showed that no objections were found in Kampar Regency, so there was nothing to read out at the plenary recapitulation at the provincial level.

Based on that explanation, all of the Petitioner’s arguments are legally unreasonable and all of his requests should be rejected, the Respondent asserted.

Also read: Objection Ignored, Golkar Candidate Asks Votes in Riau II Cancelled

False Argument

Meanwhile, the Relevant Party’s legal counsel Gusti Randa Yulisman emphasized that there were no objections or reports from witnesses at the polling stations nor were there objections or reports to election supervisory committees as referred to in the petition, so the Petitioner’s arguments were far-fetched and false.

“[The Relevant Party] strictly denies the Petitioner’s argument regarding the KPPS carrying out the recapitulation incorrectly as alleged in the petition’s posita,” he said.

If the violation was true, it could be categorized as an election crime. However, it is only a baseless allegation. “The evidence in the form of the district witness D-objection form as we explained states there were no [objections],” he said.

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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