The Petitioners’ legal counsel Martha Dinata at the preliminary hearing for the West Pasaman regent election results dispute, Friday (1/10/2025). Photo by MKRI/Ifa.

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JAKARTA (MKRI) — West Pasaman Regent Candidate Pair 03 Hamsuardi and Kusnadi Dt. Rajo petitioned an annulment of the West Pasaman KPU (Elections Commission) Decree No. 1275 of 2024 on the certification of the 2024 regent election results to the Constitutional Court (MK). The preliminary hearing was presided over by Chief Justice Suhartoyo (panel chair) and Constitutional Justices Daniel Yusmic P. Foekh and M. Guntur Hamzah on panel 1 on Friday, January 10, 2025.

Martha Dinata, the legal counsel of Hamsuardi-Kusnadi (Petitioners) of the Case Number 36/PHPU.BUP-XXIII/2025, mentioned the vote acquisitions certified were as follows: Candidate Pair 01 Yulianto-M.Ihpan with 59,551 votes, Candidate Pair 02 Daliyus K-Heri Miheldi with 57,121 votes, Candidate Pair 03 (Petitioners) with 50,792 votes, and Candidate Pair 04 Jailani-Syamsul Bahri with 15,526 votes, amounting to a total of 182,990 votes.

Specifically, Martha argued the Petitioners’ vote acquisition was impacted by the Respondent’s (KPU) error in districting the polling stations in West Pasaman Regency, resulting in low voter turnout at the regent election. The Petitioners calculated that out of 311,171 listed in the final voters list, only 182,991 exercised their rights to vote. In other words, 35 percent of voters could not or would not exercise their rights due to distant polling stations.

He continued, “There were also many cases of polling invitation letters (C6 forms) not being delivered to the voters in the final voters list. On election day, they could not vote at the nearby polling stations and exercise their constitutional rights because they were not registered.”

These errors, he argued, took place in many regions, such as Sungai Aur, Sungai Meremas, Kinali, Luhak Nan Duo. Talamau, Ranah Pasisia, Gunung Tuleh, Lembanh Malintang, Koto Balingka, and Ranah Batahan Districts.

For the reasons above, the Petitioners requested that the Court instruct the West Pasaman KPU to carry out a revote for the 2024 West Pasaman regent election at all of the polling stations across the regency.

The petition for Case No. 36/PHPU.BUP-XXIII/2025 can be accessed here.

Author              : Sri Pujianti
Editor                : N. Rosi
Translators        : 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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