The Relevant Party’s witness Aswanto giving a statement at a hearing on the 2024 legislative election results dispute for Papua Pegunungan Province, Friday (5/31/2024) on panel 1. Photo by MKRI/Ifa.

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JAKARTA (MKRI) — The National Democratic Party (NasDem) as the Petitioner presented I Gusti Putu Artha as an expert for case No. 231-01-05-37/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024 on the 2024 results dispute (PHPU) of the DPR (House of Representatives) election of electoral district Papua Pegunungan, the DPRD (Regional Legislative Council) election of electoral district Nduga Regency 1 and 3, and the DPRD election of electoral district Yahukimo Regency 4. Putu asserted that the noken system that applied in Papua in the 2024 election often changed as the recapitulation moved up from polling stations (TPS) to districts.

He explained that many actors influenced the change in agreements at polling stations and district levels, ranging from election organizers, local government heads, regional leaders, police officers, and so forth. Thus, when observing results in several other regions that lean towards a specific candidate’s victory, the noken results might change.

“Often, these friends at the lower levels became uncertain,” Putu said in front of Chief Justice Suhartoyo and Constitutional Justices Daniel Yusmic P. Foekh and M. Guntur Hamzah on Panel 1 in the plenary courtroom, on Friday, May 31, 2024.

On the other hand, the National Mandate Party (PAN) as the Relevant Party presented Aswanto as an expert. He asserted that the implementation of the noken system in the 2024 election in areas where the system was not allowed to appy, it would not be in accordance with KPU (General Elections Commission) Decree No. 66 of 2024. Similarly, in the event that election participants claim to have obtained votes from the noken system in areas not permitted to use the system, the vote counts are invalid and cannot be included in the TPS C-result form as votes for the election participants.

“And also based on the Constitutional Court (MK) Decision No. 06-32 of 2014, which was later enforced through the Constitutional Court Decision No. 1/PHPU.PRES.XII/2014, it is also important to know that the noken system or the ikat system cannot be used in regions that have never used it,” Aswanto explained.

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In the petition, NasDem disputes the vote difference for the DPR election of electoral district Papua Pegunungan, the DPRD election of electoral district Nduga Regency 1 and 3, and the DPRD election of electoral district Yahukimo Regency 4. The Petitioner said that the difference in NasDem’s votes between the Petitioner and the Respondent’s (KPU) versions reached 80,975 votes. According to the Petitioner, the number of votes was transferred to other parties including PSI (Indonesian Solidarity Party) and PAN. As a result of the reduction in votes and the addition of other parties’ votes, NasDem lost one seat in Papua 3, so it failed to get its second seat.

However, according to the Petitioner, if the votes for NasDem as requested by the Petitioner had been in accordance with the customary agreement of Papuan Pegunungan, amounting to 551,293 votes, NasDem would have obtained the third seat. In the petitum, the Petitioner requests the Court to determine the correct vote count for the Papua Pegunungan DPR election as follows: : 187,780 votes and the third seat for NasDem; to restore the correct vote acquisition for the election of DPRD for Nduga Regency 1 with 9,044 votes for NasDem; to restore the correct vote acquisition for the DPRD election for Nduga Regency 3 with 2,198 votes for NasDem; to determine the correct vote acquisition results according to the Petitioner for the Papua Pegunungan DPR election as follows: 5,069 votes and the third seat for NasDem.

Author               : Mimi Kartika
Editor                : Lulu Anjarsari P.
PR                    : Fauzan Febriyan
Translator         : Jessica Rivena Meilania/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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