The Respondent’s legal counsel La Radi Eno conveying a statement at a follow-up hearing for the 2024 legislative election results dispute of North Sumatera Province, Monday (5/13/2024). Photo by MKRI/Ifa.

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JAKARTA (MKRI) — The vote acquisition of the People’s Conscience Party (Hanura) and the Democratic Party is in accordance with the South Nias Regency D-results data in the election of political parties and legislative candidates for North Sumatra Provincial DPRD Electoral District (Dapil) 8. This was revealed by the KPU (General Elections Commission) as the Respondent La Radi Eno in the hearing of the 2024 legislative election results dispute (PHPU) for the House of Representatives (DPR), Provincial and Regency/City Regional Legislative Council (DPRD) of North Sumatra Province in North Sumatra 8. This second hearing was held by the Constitutional Court (MK) on Monday, May 13, 2024 in the plenary courtroom of the Court. The hearing was heard by Chief Justice Suhartoyo and Constitutional Justices Daniel Yusmic and M. Guntur Hamzah, and was scheduled to hear testimony from the Respondent and Bawaslu (Elections Supervisory Body). Case No. 172-01-14-02/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024 was filed by the Democratic Party.

In the hearing, La Radi Eno also added that the results of the vote acquisition recapitulation had been carried out in stages starting from the polling stations (TPS), District (PPK/subdistrict election committee), Regency, Provincial to the KPU national level. So that the Respondent explains that the Petitioner's argument is not proven about the Respondent adding votes or reducing votes in the recapitulation of vote counts in the election of political parties and legislative candidates for DPRD members of North Sumatra Province 8.

La Radi Eno explained that even if there were errors in recording the vote acquisition, errors in summing up the vote acquisition, correcting the recording and/or summing up the vote acquisition, including in the case of objections from political party witnesses, these had been corrected and fixed. Then the results of the correction were outlined in a special incident form and/or witness objections that were known, approved and agreed upon jointly between the Respondent and the witnesses of the election participants - including the Petitioner's witnesses.

"Regarding the Petitioner's argument which basically states that the addition of votes to the Hanura carried out by the Respondent at polling stations in several subdistricts in South Nias Regency is an untrue argument," he said.

Also read: Democrat Says West Nias 1 Votes Went to Hanura

Meanwhile, Bawaslu in the trial said that the Langkat Regency Bawaslu had handled the report and was followed up by the South Nias Regency Bawaslu.

"The results of the report fulfill the elements and prove that there are allegations of fraud regarding the acquisition results of the Recapitulation of Vote Acquisition at the North Sumatera DPR II of Teluk Dalam Subdistrict, where the recapitulation results read out by the PPK Teluk Dalam Subdistrict do not match the vote acquisition data that we obtained from the C-results at the plenary level of each village. The complainant is an Indonesian citizen and does not come from the witness of the election participant party. That the South Nias Regency Bawaslu did not receive a tiered report from TPS to Regency submitted by the Democratic Party, " explained by Payung Harahap.

Then, Payung continued for West Nias Regency, West Nias Regency Bawaslu has carried out supervisory duties on the implementation of the recapitulation of the vote count results at the West Nias Regency level which has been outlined in the supervision report which is basically related to the recommendation to carry out a recount of votes at TPS 002 Hilimberuanaa Village, Sirombu Subdistrict.

Meanwhile, Hanura (Related Party) emphasized that the Petitioner's petition only argued for the addition of votes of Related Parties and other parties and did not question the vote acquisition of the Petitioner itself.

"In its petition, the petitioner merely postulates the alleged addition of votes from the Related Parties amounting to 2,320 votes and does not mention at all the reduction of the Petitioner's vote by the Respondent," said Hanura’s legal counsel Sudarman. Therefore, it can be implicitly interpreted that he recognizes that there was no reduction in his vote by the Respondent.

Meanwhile, PDIP (Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle), which also originally submitted as a Related Party, actually revoked its petition as a Related Party.

Author               : Utami Argawati
Editor                : Lulu Anjarsari P.
PR                    : Andhini S.F.
Translator         : Jessica Rivena Meilania

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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