The Petitioner’s legal counsels at the ruling hearing of case No. 210-02-14-18/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024 PHPU for West Nusa Tenggara Province DPR-DPRD election, Tuesday (5/21/2024). Photo by MKRI//Bayu.

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JAKARTA (MKRI) — The Constitutional Court handed down a ruling on the petition by Democratic Party candidate number 2 Muhammad Zamharir at a ruling hearing on the 2024 DPR (House of Representatives) and Provincial and Regency/City DPRD (Regional Legislative Council) election results dispute on Tuesday, May 21, 2024.

Regarding Case No. 210-02-14-18/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024, the Court through Deputy Chief Justice Saldi Isra said that the hearing had asked for clarification on the petition’s object, i.e. the annulment of the General Elections Commission (KPU) Decree No. 290 of 2024 on the stipulation of the 2024 DPR election results for Mataram City dated March 3, 2024.

Based on this fact, the justice deliberation meeting (RPH) on May 15 concluded that the object of the Petitioner’s petition was not the stipulation of the vote acquisition of the national election results as stipulated in Article 474 paragraph (1) of the Election Law No. 7 of 2017 and Article 5 of the Constitutional Court Regulation No. 2 of 2023. Therefore, the petition was not under the Court’s authority. “[The Court] stipulates, declares that the Court does not have the authority to hear the Petitioner petition,” said Chief Justice Suhartoyo reading out the decree.

At the preliminary hearing on Thursday, May 2, the Petitioner noted that many issues had been found in the implementation of the election, including 19 issues found by Bawaslu (Elections Supervisory Body) in the voting and vote counting on February 14, including 13 voting issues and six vote counting issues. At 11,233 polling stations, continued the Petitioner’s legal counsel Najamuddin, the KPS’ vote recapitulation information system (Sirekap) had been inaccessible. At 1,895 polling stations, the polling station supervisors were not given the C-result copies while witnesses were given different C-result copies. According to the Petitioner, it was clear that the subdistrict election committee (PPK) of Sandubaya Subdistrict, Mataram City had been negligent and deliberately made errors by, which later was determined by the plenary meeting of the Mataram City KPU. Thus, the Petitioner requested that the Court annul the KPU Decree No. 360 of 2024, declare the correct vote acquisition of the Petitioner as 3,984 votes and PKS as 3,981 votes, and order the KPU to implement this decision.

Author              : Sri Pujianti
Translator         : Frity Michael Br Sembiring/Yuniar W.

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