The Respondent’s legal counselThomas Mauritius Djawa delivering a statement at hearing of Case No. 283-01-03-06/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024 PHPU for the 2024 legislative election results dispute of the DPR, DPD, Provincial DPRD, and Regency / City DPRD Provinces, Wednesday (5/8/2024). / Bayu.

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JAKARTA, MKRI –  The Constitutional Court (MK) held a hearing on the Election Results Dispute (PHPU) of Members of the House of Representatives (DPR) and the Regional Legislative Council (DPRD), (PHPU DPR) in 2024 submitted by the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) for the filling of candidates for Palembang City DPRD members along Palembang City Election 2 Sukarami, Kemuning, and Alang-Alang Lebar Districts, South Sumatra Province. The hearing of Case No. 283-01-03-06/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024 a Panel 3 was heard by Constitutional Justices Arief Hidayat (panel chair), Anwar Usman, and Enny Nurbaningsih, On Wednesday, May 08, 2024.

The agenda of this hearing is to listen to the Respondent's (KPU) Response, the Related Party's statement, and Bawaslu's statement as well as the ratification of evidence.

KPU’s Statement

KPU's legal counsel, Thomas Mauritus Djawa, refuted PDI-P's argument about the reduction of the Petitioner's votes in Sukarami Subdistrict by 120 votes. Thomas claimed this was not true because the Petitioner was mistaken in describing the details of the vote acquisition in his petition.

“That the Petitioner's argument regarding the addition of party votes and candidates for Palembang City DPRD members of the NasDem Party in Sukarami District, Kemuning District, Alang-alang Lebar District as many as 133 votes is not true,” said Thomas.

Regarding the Petitioner's argument regarding the Final Voters List (DPT) in Musi Banyuasin, electoral district 1, is a matter of process, not a vote dispute, so it is not the respondents of the Court. The Respondent explains that the DPT issue is not directly related to the vote acquisition as argued by the Petitioner.

During the hearing, the Respondent asked the Court to grant the Respondent's exception. Then to declare the Petition inadmissible. Reject the entire petition and declare it valid and true.

KPU Decree No. 360 of 2024 concerning the Determination of the Election Results of the President and Vice President, Members of the DPR, DPRD, Province/Regency DPRD Nationally in the 2024 General Election which was announced on Wednesday, March 20, 2024 at 22.19 WIB.

Petitioner Past the Deadline

Andri Adam, a legal counsel for the NasDem Party, stated in court that the petition had passed the grace period. Andri explained that the petition must be filed within a maximum of 3x24 hours after the announcement of the determination of the vote results of the elections for DPR and DPRD members nationally by the KPU.

The determination of the vote acquisition results of the elections for members of the DPR and DPRD nationally in the 2024 elections was announced by the KPU on March 20, 2024, at 22:19 WIB. Thus, the grace period for filing a PHPU Petition within 3x24 hours of the determination being read out is until March 23, 2024 at 22:19 WIB. The Petitioner's was submitted to the Court on March 23, 2024, at 21:15 WIB, but it was only recorded on the Deed of Submission of the Electronic Petitioner.

Bawaslu Statement

In the hearing, the South Sumatra Bawaslu and the Palembang City Bawaslu gave instructions to Panwascam throughout Palembang City on February 17, 2024 (No. 078/PM.00.02/K.SS-16/02/2024) regarding the stages of Recapitulation of Vote Acquisition Counting Results for the Palembang City DPRD electoral district 2, in accordance with the main petitioner’s.

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Author          : Siti Rosmalina Nurhayati.
Editor         : Nur R.
Translator     : Siti Nurhaliza

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