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JAKARTA (MKRI) — The Constitutional Court (MK) rules to declare  the United Development Party's (PPP) petition for the DPRD (Regional Legislative Council) election results dispute for the electoral district of Peniai Regency 2 inadmissible. The Panel of Constitutional Justices declared that Case No. 174-01-17-36/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024 did not meet the formal requirements of the petition because the petition was obscure. The Ruling Hearing was held on Tuesday, May 21, 2024 at the plenary courtroom.

“[The Court] grants the Respondent's exception regarding the Petitioner's petition is obscure and rejects the Respondent's exception for other than and the rest. In the main petition, [the Court] rules to declare the Petitioner's petition inadmissible,” said Chief Justice Suhartoyo alongside the other eight constitutional justices.

According to the Court, the Petitioner's petitum is obscure because the first alternative petition does not contain the annulment of General Elections Commission (KPU) Decree No. 360 of 2024. Therefore, alternative Petitum 1 (one) cannot be used.

Furthermore, according to the Court, there is a contradiction between the request for the certification of the correct vote acquisition between the posita and the petitum in the electoral district of Central Papua Province for appointment of the DPR RI (House of Representatives) members in alternative Petitum 2 (two). In the posita, it is stated that the Petitioner requests the certification of the correct vote acquisition for candidate on behalf of Albertus Keiya of 66,612 votes, but in the petitum, the Petitioner requests 65,587 votes. The Petitioner also requests the Court to certify the correct votes in the Central Papua DPR of 169,212 votes, one of which is expected to be from the Paniai Regency of 65,587 votes. According to the Court, the total vote is different from the total vote requested between the posita and petitum.

In alternative Petitum 3 (three), the Petitioner requests the Court to annul KPU Decree No. 360 of 2024 in the Central Papua DPR and to conduct a revote. According to the Court, there has been a discrepancy between the posita and petitum, so this argument is also obscure.

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Previously, the Petitioner alleged fraud in the election of DPR members in several regencies in Central Papua. The Petitioner argued there were significant discrepancies in the vote count in Paniai and Dogiyai Regencies. The Petitioner’s legal counsel, Akhmad Leksono and Muhammad Sholeh Amin, explained that based on the noken system agreement held by the local tribal chiefs, the Petitioner's legislative candidate, Albertus Keiya, should have received significantly more votes than those certified in the official recapitulation. Internal party calculations showed that Keiya received 65,587 valid votes from the agreement, but only 1,025 votes were recorded.

For information, in this case, Constitutional Justice Arsul Sani exercised his right to abstain.(*)

Author: Adam Ilyas
Editor: Lulu Anjarsari P.
PR: Tiara Agustina

Translator: Intana Selvira Fauzi / Fuad Subhan

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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