Legal team of Yapen regent candidate pair 4 Yuhendar Muabuai-Yotam Ayomi filing a petition disputing the local election results, Tuesday (12/10/2024). Photo by MKRI/Bayu.

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JAKARTA (MKRI) — Yapen regent-vice regent candidates 4 Yuhendar Muabuai-Yotam Ayomi have filed a petition challenging the election results to the Constitutional Court (MK). The independent candidates alleged that a legislative election results dispute that the KPU (General Elections Commission) had not settled had been the root of structured, systematic, and massive (TSM) violations in Yapen Islands.

“I feel that the candidates registered and the nomination [of independents] outside political partiesare not yet valid because the KPU has not resolved the issue of the legislative election results in the Yapen Islands Regency, and there has also been a petition to the DKPP (Election Organizer Ethics Council) and Bawaslu (Elections Supervisory Body),” said Muabuai who came to the Court in person on Tuesday, December 10, 2024 with his legal counsel.

He explained that in the 2024 legislative election results dispute decision pronounced last June, the Court had ordered the KPU to recapitulate the votes by first comparing the C-result forms with the subdistrict D-result forms and the regency/city D-result forms. The Court then ordered the KPU to combine the re-recapitulation results to the results of the Yapen Islands Regency DPRD (Regional Legislative Council) election in electoral district 1 that were not canceled by the Court.

He alleged that the KPU has not resolved the issue, so it has an impact on the nomination requirements for regents and vice regents endorsed by political parties. He said this problem certainly tarnished the process of the Yapen Islands Regency gubernatorial election. In addition, he said, there had been other election violations such prohibition against him from attending recapitulation at regency level. He also said that a number of voters, including his family, had not received invitations to vote at polling stations (TPS).

“I am a [voter] who wanted to join the [plenary recapitulation], but I was not allowed to. This means that they were prepared to commit bad things,” Muabuai said.

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Two Gubernatorial Election Petitions

As of today, two petitions challenging the gubernatorial election results have been lodged to the Court. One was filed by the Association of Indonesian Voters (PPI), while the other by M. Andrean Saefudin and Salsabila. The Respondent is the South Papua Provincial KPU. In this provincial election, Genze-Yusak Yaluwo earned 49,000 votes, Nikolais Kondomo-H. Baidin Kurita earned 12,656, Romanus Mbraka-Albertus Muyak earned 68,991, while Apolo Safanpo-Paskalis Imadawa won with 139,580 votes.

Until 14:15 WIB today, 211 petitions disputing the 2024 regional election results have been lodged—2 on the governor election, 170 on the regent election, and 39 on the mayor election. Out of them, 108 were filed online through SIMPEL, while the other 103 were lodged on site.

Author              : Mimi Kartika
Editor               : Lulu Anjarsari P.
Translator         : Yuniar Widiastuti (NL)

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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