The Petitioner’s legal counsels Shahnaz Nabilla and Raja Inal Manurung attending a ruling hearing for the 2024 legislative election results dispute of Aceh Province, Friday (6/7/2024) in the plenary courtroom. Photo by MKRI/Ifa.

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JAKARTA (MKRI) — The Constitutional Court (MK) handed down a ruling for the 2024 DPR-DPRD (House of Representatives-Regional Legislative Council) election results dispute petition for case No. 20-01-04-01/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024 on Friday, June 7, 2024. The case was petitioned by Golkar (Party of Functional Groups). The Court granted the petition in its entirety.

“[The Court] grants the Petitioner’s petition in its entirety,” said Chief Justice Suhartoyo reading out the verdict.

The Court ordered a recount of the votes for the Aceh Legislative Council (DPRA) candidates in electoral district Aceh 6 across all polling stations in eight subdistricts. These subdistricts are Idi Rayeuk, Birem Bayeun, Peureulak, Ranto Peureulak, East Peureulak, West Peureulak, Simpang Jernih, and Peunaron.

Justice Arief Hidayat, delivering the Court’s legal considerations, stated that the Court had carefully examined and compared the evidence submitted by the parties. The Court found discrepancies in the vote count for Aceh Party between the different forms submitted by the parties. For example, the Aceh Party’s vote count in Idi Rayeuk East Aceh was 7,503 on the Petitioner’s C-result copy, but 7,501 on the Respondent’s C-result form. Furthermore, there was a difference in the subdistrict DPRA D-result form for the Aceh Party.

“From the comparison, it was found that the Aceh Party received 10,134 votes. Although this differs from the Petitioner’s claim of 10,018 and 10,028 votes on the subdistrict D-result form, the fact indicates a discrepancy between the C-result copy and the subdistrict DPRA D-result form,” Justice Arief Hidayat explained.

The differences in the Aceh Party’s votes on the C-result copy and the subdistrict D-result form led the Court to doubt the validity of the subdistrict vote counts.

The Court doubted the validity of the numbers on the subdistrict D-result form due to discrepancies on the C-result copy and the subdistrict D-result form of Idi Rayeuk Subdistrict and the failure of the subdistrict election committees (PPK) in ten subdistricts to follow up on instructions by the Independent Election Commission (KIP) of East Aceh Regency and the Aceh Provincial Bawaslu (Elections Supervisory Body) decision further cast doubt on the administrative validity of the vote counts.

Due the lack of follow-up, the Court deemed it essential to conduct a recount of the ballots at all polling stations across the subdistricts mentioned in the petition.

Also read:

Golkar Alleges Vote Inflation for Gerindra and Aceh Party in Aceh VI

KPU: Golkar’s Claim of Votes in Aceh VI Unclear

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Author              : Siti Rosmalina Nurhayati
Editor                : Nur R.
Translators        : Dzaki Difa Al Hadiid/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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