The Constitutional Court held a ruling hearing for the 2024 Legislative election results dispute of Jakarta Province on Wednesday (5/22/2024). Photo by MKRI/Ifa.

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JAKARTA (MKRI) — The Constitutional Court (MK) dismissed a petition for the 2024 DPR RI (the House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia) for the electoral district of DKI Jakarta II filed by the United Development Party (PPP) presented by H. Muhamad Mardiono as the Acting Chairman and H. M. Arwani Thomafi as the Secretary General. The Panel of Justices declared that the case No. 02-01-17-11/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024 did not meet the formal requirements of the petition because it was obscure. This verdict was read out by the Chief Justice Suhartoyo, on Wednesday, May 22, 2024 at the plenary courtroom.

“[The Court] adjudicated, relating to the exceptions: to grant the Respondent’s exception on the obscurity of the a quo petition. 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, after examining the Petition, the Petitioner argued there was an error in the vote count for the appointment of DPR RI candidates for the DKI Jakarta II. The Petitioner stated there was a reduction in its votes by 6,360 votes and a vote inflation in the Indonesian Guard of Change Party (Garuda) by 6,360 votes.

However, the Petitioner did not elaborate further on which locations or polling stations and at which level of recapitulation there were problems with the Respondent's vote count. The Petitioner also does not explain how there was a reduction or inflation of votes or at least in which subdistricts were disputes over votes as argued. The absence of such a description results in the petition becoming obscure, so the Court cannot understand what problems are actually faced by the Petitioner.

Based on these facts, the Petition does not fulfill the formal requirements of the petition as stipulated in Article 75 of the Constitutional Court Law and Article 11 paragraph (2) letter b. Therefore, according to the Court, the Petition is obscure.

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Previously, the Petitioner argued there was a transfer of the Petitioner's votes in the DKI Jakarta II to the Garuda of 6,360 votes as a result of a counting error by the General Election Commission (KPU) as Respondent, so the Garuda Party's votes which originally 60 votes, inflated to 6,420 votes. On the other hand, the Petitioner's original 80,467 votes were illegally reduced to 74,107 votes.(*)

Author  : Adam Ilyas
Editor   : Lulu Anjarsari P.

PR  : Tiara Agustina
Translator     : Intana Selvira Fauzi 

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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