A Court staff listing attendance at a ruling hearing for the 2024 legislative election results dispute of West Java Province, Tuesday (5/21/2024). Photo by MKRI/Ifa.

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JAKARTA (MKRI) — The Constitutional Court (MK) dismissed the 2024 DPR/DPRD (House of Representatives/Regional Legislative Council) election results dispute case No. 131-02-03-12/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024 on Tuesday, May 21, 2024. The case was petitioned by Asep Hidayat, a DPRD candidate for the electoral district of West Bandung Regency 5.

“[The Court] determined to declared the Petitioner’s petition inadmissible,” said Chief Justice Suhartoyo.

In its legal considerations, the Court asserts that it per Article 39 of the Constitutional Court Law and Article 41 paragraph (1) of the Constitutional Court Regulation (PMK) No. 2 of 2023 concerning judicial review procedure for DPR/DPRD elections results dispute, the Court had hold a preliminary hearing for the a quo case on a panel on Tuesday, 30 April 2024 at 08:00 WIB.

“The Court has summoned the Petitioner lawfully and properly with the chief registrar letter No. 86/Sid.Pen/DPR- DPRD/Pan.MK/04/2024 dated April 25, 2024 on summons. However, until the hearing in question was adjourned, the Petitioner was absent without any valid reason,” said Justice Daniel Yusmic P. Foekh reading the decree.

Based on legal facts, the justice deliberation meeting on May 15, 2024 concluded that the Petitioner’s absence at the panel preliminary hearing without any valid reason despite lawful and proper summons showed that the Petitioner did not file the a quo petition seriously. “As such, the Petitioner’s petition must be declared inadmissible,” he emphasized.

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In addition, the Court believes there was no need to hold another session to hear the responses of the Respondent (General Elections Commission/KPU), the Relevant Party, and Bawaslu (Elections Supervisory Body) since they would be irrelevant. As such, those responses and the evidence were not considered any further.

In his petition, the Petitioner alleged that party colleagues had practiced money politics (vote buying). He claimed that he did not receive clear information from the Cipatat subdistrict election committee (PPK) regarding the vote acquisition from the C-1 forms.

Author              : Utami Argawati
Editor                : Lulu Anjarsari P.
PR                    : Fauzan Febriyan
Translator         : Sedanti Anjali Putri, 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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