The Constitutional Court held a hearing for the 2024 legislative election results dispute (PHPU) of Riau Province in the plenary courtroom on Tuesday (5/28/2024). Photo by MKRI/Ifa.

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JAKARTA (MKRI) –  The Constitutional Court (MK) held a hearing for the 2024 legislative election results dispute for case No. 225-01-01-04/PHPU.DPR.DPRD-XXI/2024 on Tuesday, May 28, 2024 in the plenary courtroom. During the hearing, the General Election Commission (KPU) presented Abu Hamid, a Chairman of the Kepulauan Meranti KPU, as a witness. He explained the reasons for a revote at polling station (TPS) 002 of Tanjung Peranap Village, Tebing Tinggi Barat Subdistrict, Kepulauan Meranti Regency in the 2024 election.

Hamid stated that the subdistrict election supervisory committee (Panwascam) of Tebing Tinggi Barat issued a recommendation to the Kepulauan Meranti Regency KPU. Upon receiving the recommendation, his party promptly responded and documented the decision in the Minutes of the Plenary Meeting. The plenary decision was not to conduct a revote at TPS 002 of Tanjung Peranap Village.

"In the recommendation letter, it was argued that one person registered on the Additional Final Voters List (DPTb), Sri Suhartiningsih, should have received four ballots but was given five. We then argued against Article 372 of Law No. 7 of 2017 and Article 80 of KPU Regulation No. 25 of 2023, which do not explicitly mandate a revote for the incident that occurred at TPS 002 of Tanjung Peranap. The incident was indeed true as per the recommendation," he said.

The same matter was conveyed by another Respondent’s witness, namely Katmuji, a Commissioner of the Kepulauan Meranti Regency KPU. He said that the incident in Tanjung Peranap was not included in the specified category.

On the same occasion, Ryanda Alwindi, presented by the National Mandate Party (PAN) as a Relevant Party, emphasized that the recapitulation at the subdistrict level went smoothly and could be proven on subdistrict D-results form. “No problems occurred,” he said. At the regency level, he said there were no objections proven by the eleven parties that participated, but there was an objection from the National Awakening Party’s (PKB) witness.

Another PAN’s witness, Yusli, said that he saw PKB’s witness questioning the Meranti Regency KPU regarding the non-implementation of revote at TPS 002 of Tanjung Peranap Village. “The rest of the plenary meeting went safely, the witness did not sign D-results,” he explained.

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Responding to the matters, the Elections Supervisory Body (Bawaslu), represented by Syamsurizal, revealed that based on Bawaslu's supervision there were voters who moved to DPTb who were given five ballots. “The voter has a different electoral district that should only receive four ballots,” he said. 

In the preliminary hearing, the Petitioner argued that there were findings of administrative violations committed by the committees, as they gave ballots that should not have been given to additional voter Sri Suharmi Ningsih, particularly at TPS 002 of Tanjung Peranap Village, Tebing Tinggi Barat Subdistrict, Meranti Regency, Riau Province.(*)

Author  : Utami Argawati
Editor   : Lulu Anjarsari P.
Translator     : Intana Selvira Fauzi/Fuad Subhan

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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