Fazlun Hasan giving a statement at the preliminary hearing for the Langsa mayoral election results dispute in panel 2 courtroom on Thursday (1/9/2025). Photo by MKRI/Teguh.

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JAKARTA (MKRI) – Langsa Mayor Candidate 5, Fazlun Hasan, independently filed his petition for the election results dispute to the Constitutional Court (MK) under Case Number 17/PHPU.WAKO-XXIII/2025. The Petitioner claimed there had been structured, systematic, and massive (TSM) vote buying practices by Candidate Pair 2 Jeffry Sentana S. Putra and M. Haikal Alfisyahrin and their campaign team in five districts of Langsa.

“To our knowledge, it is true that there were two waves of money politics in Langsa City. The first was caught red-handed and then [the second] involved state civil apparatus out in the open, [showing] how weak the Gakkumdu (Integrated Law Enforcement) was,” said Fazlun at the preliminary hearing before panel 2 presided over by Deputy Chief Justice Saldi Isra (panel chair) and Constitutional Justices Ridwan Mansyur and Arsul Sani on Thursday, January 9, 2025.

In his petition, Fazlun explained that during the campaign, the campaign coordinators of Candidate Pair 2 as the Relevant Party had allegedly committed violations of money politics in all districts in Langsa City and collected voters’ data by taking pictures of the voters’ ID cards next to business cards containing pictures of Candidate Pair 2. Afterwards, the data was distributed to the administrators at the district level and voters were promised to be given money by the election day. Voters who had their ID cards photographed were given coupons to redeem their rewards.

Fazlun admitted to finding indications of fraud in the form envelopes containing money and business cards of Candidate Pair 2 during election silence. He claimed to have reported the incidents to the regency’s voters supervisory committee. He alleged that the vote buying practice had affected the number of votes acquired because there was an increase in the number of votes for Candidate Pair 2 at almost all polling stations across the districts of Langsa City.

In his petitums, the Petitioner requested the Court to annul the Langsa KIP (Independent Elections Commission) decree on the certification of the 2024 mayoral election results. The Commission certified the vote acquisition 10,030 votes for Candidate Pair 1; 31,916 votes for Candidate Pair 2; 20,591 votes for Candidate Pair 3; 1,695 votes for Candidate Pair 4; and 14,631 votes for Candidate Pair 5.

Author            : Mimi Kartika
Editor            : Lulu Anjarsari P.
PR                 : Fauzan Febriyan
Translator       : M. Hafidh Al Mukmin/Yuniar Widiastuti (RA)

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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