Stevan Melay from Bawaslu attends a follow-up hearing on the 2024 legislative election results dispute for Maluku to hear responses from Respondent, Relevant Parties, and Bawaslu, also to ratify the Relevant Parties' Evidence, Tuesday (5/7/2024). Photo by MKRI/Teguh.

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JAKARTA  (MKRI) – The Constitutional Court (MK) held a follow-up hearing over the 2024 election results dispute of the DPR (House of Representatives), Provincial and Regency/City DPRD (Regional Legislative Council) on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. The follow-up hearing for case No. 252-01-17-31/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024 filed by the United Development Party (PPP) was presided over by Deputy Chief Justice Saldi Isra and Constitutional Justices Ridwan Mansyur and Arsul Sani on the Panel 2.

The General Election Commission (KPU) as Respondent through its legal counsel, M. Khoironi, revealed that the plenary meeting for the recapitulation of vote count results in Tehua Village of Telutih Subdistrict had been conducted in accordance with the applicable laws and regulations. On this occasion, the Respondent also answered that it was not true regarding the vote inflation for the Party of Functional Groups (Golkar) in Telutih Subdistrict for the aforementioned pertain, so the vote acquisition of the Golkar Party in the area was 1,567 votes.

Next, the Respondent mentioned that Golkar's votes based on the subdistrict recapitulation at polling station (TPS) 01 Wolu Village of Telutih Subdistrict was the result of data from the polling station level. Furthermore, the Respondent revealed on February 22, 2024 that there was an error in recording C Results in the recapitulation at the Tehoru Subdistrict level for the Petitioner's votes at TPS 04 Telutih Baru Village, which should have been 85 votes but was written as 86 votes. For this, continued Khoironi, the subdistrict election committee (PPK) took action by adjusting the numbers while asking for responses from the election supervisory committee (Panwas) and Witnesses who attended the forum. As a result, both the Panwas and Witness agreed to make corrections to the error. Regarding the Petitioner’s vote acquisition based on the C Results of Subdistrict at TPS 04 Telutih Baru Village, there was no inflation or reduction of votes, either for the petitioner or the Golkar party.

The Respondent also explained that the implementation of the plenary vote counting meeting in Tehoru Subdistrict for TPS 01, 02, 03, 04, and 05 Yaputih Village of Tehoru Subdistrict has been running transparently in accordance with laws and regulations. “On February 28, 2024 in Tehoru Village, PPK read out the recount of the Regency/City DPRD election for TPS 02 and 03 based on public reports. The subdistrict election supervisory committee (Panwascam) issued a recount recommendation which contained analyzing 3 TPS, which consists of 01, 04, and 05 also recommended a recount at 2 TPS, namely TPS 02 and 03 according to the public report on behalf of Iwan,” said Khoironi on the Panel Session Room, Building 2 of the Court, Jakarta.

Also read: PPP Questions Inflation of Golkar’s Votes in Central Maluku 3 

Author : Sri Pujianti.

Editor : Nur R.

Translator : Intana Selvira Fauzi 

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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