The Petitioner’s legal counsel Erry Ayudhiansyah at a ruling hearing for the 2024 election results dispute, Tuesday (5/21/2024). Photo by MKRI/Teguh.

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JAKARTA (MKRI) — The Constitutional Court (MK) handed down Decision No. 34-02-01-33/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024 for the Jayapura Regency DPRD election results dispute (PHPU) for the electoral district of Jayapura 4. In the verdict, the Court stated that it declared the petition filed by Slamet, Jayapura Regency DPRD candidate number 1 for Jayapura 4 from the National Awakening Party (PKB), inadmissible. According to the Court, he did not explain the petition arguments in more detail so the petition became vague.

“[The Court] declares, relating to the subject matter: the Petitioner’s petition is inadmissible,” said Chief Justice Suhartoyo at the ruling hearing in the plenary courtroom on Tuesday, May 21, 2024.

Delivering the Court’s legal considerations, Constitutional Justice Ridwan Mansyur explained that the Petitioner disputed the vote acquisition of candidate number 2 Wilhelmus Manggo, which increased by 1,049 votes, while that of PKB and other PKB candidates decreased in five districts: Nimboran, Nimbokrang, Nambluong, Kemtuk, and Kemtuk Gresi. However, in the posita, the Petitioner did not explain how the vote increase and reduction had occurred and done by whom. The Petitioner also did not explain at which polling stations the votes for the Petitioner and other PKB candidates decreased and the votes for Wilhelmus Manggo increased.

In addition, if totaled, the reduction in votes for the Petitioner, PKB, candidates number 3, 4, and 5 as argued by the Petitioner amounted to 399 votes, but the addition to Wilhelmus Manggo’s votes as argued by the Petitioner was 1,049 votes. The Petitioner should explain the relationship between PKB and PKB candidates’ reduced votes and the increased votes for Manggo, whether those votes were transferred to Manggo. If so, why the reduction was much smaller than the increase.

It was also not explained whether there was a transfer of votes from other political parties to Manggo. The addition and loss of votes should correlate with the total valid votes obtained by PKB and the overall total valid votes at the district and regency/city levels. However, the Petitioner does not explain this. The petition was even more unclear because the Petitioner requested the Court to determine that the total number of PKB votes was 2,107, although the Respondent certified 2,757 votes, or 650 votes fewer than that certified by the Respondent.

“It is difficult to understand how the Petitioner requests that the Court determine the vote acquisition of the party to be smaller than that certified, regardless of its correlation to the acquisition of PKB’s seats in Jayapura Regency 4. The arguments that were not explained, the Court believes, made the petition vague and incomprehensible,” Justice Ridwan said.

According to the Court, the petition failed to fulfill the formal requirement of the standard format as stipulated in Article 75 of the Constitutional Court Law and Article 11 paragraph (2) of Constitutional Court Regulation No. 2 of 2023, causing the a quo petition to be unclear or vague. Because the Petitioner’s petition was unclear or vague, it was not considered further.

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Author              : Mimi Kartika.
Editor               : Nur R.
Translator         : Frity Michael Br Sembiring/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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