Court visitors watching a ruling hearing for the 2024 legislative election results dispute through a monitor, Wednesday (5/22/2024). Photo by MKRI/Ifa.

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JAKARTA (MKRI) — The Constitutional Court (MK) ruled a petition by the United Development Party (PPP) related to the general election results of members of the DPR (House of Representatives) and Provincial DPRD (Regional Legislative Council) in the electoral district of Jambi and the Jambi City DPRD for the electoral districts of Jambi City 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 and declared it inadmissible. The Court stated that Case No. 110-01-17-05/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024 did not meet the formal requirements because the petition was unclear or vague. This verdict was read out by Chief Justice Suhartoyo on Wednesday, May 22, 2024 in the plenary courtroom.

“[The Court] adjudicated, relating to exceptions: to grant the Respondent’s exception on the obscurity of the a quo petition, to reject the Respondent’s exception for the rest and remainder; relating to the subject matter: to declare the Petitioner’s petition inadmissible,” said Chief Justice Suhartoyo alongside the other eight constitutional justices.

According to the Court, the Petitioner did not elaborate clearly in his petition the locus and level of recapitulation where the reduction and addition of votes had occurred. The absence of such a description results in the petition being unclear and, therefore, the Court was unable to understand the problems are faced by the Petitioner, let alone to examine the petition further.

The Court also found contradicting facts in the petitums number 2, 3.1, and 3.2. up to 3.5. In petitum 2, the Petitioner requested the Court to cancel the General Elections Commission (KPU) Decree No. 360 of 2024, while in petitum 3.1, the Petitioner requested the determination of the correct vote acquisition for the 2024 DPR election according to the Petitioner for PPP and the Indonesian Guard of Change Party (Garuda) in the 2024 DPR election.

However, in petitums 3.2 through 3.5, the Petitioner also requested the Court to order the Respondent to hold a revote for the DPR election in the electoral district of Jambi Province 1, and for the Jambi Provincial DPRD election in Jambi 1, and for the Jambi City DPRD election in Jambi City 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 at several polling stations. The three petitums contradicted each other, so they should not be cumulative as they had different legal consequences. In petitum 3.1 the Petitioner should have asked the Court to determine the correct vote count, while in petitums 3.2 through 3.5 it should have asked alternatively for the Court to order the Respondent (General Elections Commission/KPU) to hold a revote. The Court asserted that the petition was unclear because the petitums were  cumulative and contradictory.

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The Petitioner argued that the vote acquisition of the Petitioner and Garuda in the DPR election in Jambi in the Respondent’s version and the Petitioner’s differed. Garuda had 6,729 votes according to the Respondent, but the Petitioner believed it should have had only 129 votes. The Petitioner alleged that it should have had 64,714 votes, but only 58,114 votes were certified by the Respondent. This meant that there was a difference of 6,600 votes.

Author              : Adam Ilyas
Editor               : Lulu Anjarsari P.
PR                    : Tiara Agustina
Translator         : M. Ariva Aswin Bahar, 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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