Legal counsel Asran S. at the preliminary hearing for Case No. 76/PHPU.BUP-XXIII/2025 concerning the South Konawe Regency election results dispute, Wednesday (1/15/2025). Photo by MKRI/Ifa.

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JAKARTA (MKRI) – Administrative issues were raised in the petition for Case No. 76/PHPU.BUP-XXIII/2025 concerning the dispute over the 2024 South Konawe Regency election results. The petition was delivered at the preliminary hearing on Wednesday, January 15, 2025, presided over by Chief Justice Suhartoyo (panel chair) and Constitutional Justices Foekh and M. Guntur Hamzah on Panel 1.

The Petitioners are Candidate Pair 01 Adi Jaya Putra-James Adam Mokke, while the South Konawe KPU (Elections Commission) is the Respondent.

The administrative issues in question concerns the vision and mission of candidate pairs 02, 03, and 04. The Petitioners believe these candidate pairs had formulated their visions and missions without following the applicable regulations.

The Court sought further clarification on the argument presented. The Petitioners elaborated that the visions and missions in question did not comply with the regulations in terms of format and substance.

“[Is it] related to the format and substance?” asked Chief Justice Suhartoyo.

“[Yes, it relates to] the format and substance, Your Honor,” said legal counsel Asran.

The provisions mentioned by the Petitioners are Law No. 59 of 2024 on the National Long-Term Development Plan for 2025-2045 and Article 13 and Article 99 of the KPU Regulation (PKPU) No. 8 of 2024 concerning nomination requirements.

The Petitioners also pointed out that other candidates’ visions and missions were not signed while signatures in such documents serve as a means of authentication and verification.

The Petitioners believe that the Respondent should not pass those three candidate pairs. “Due to the Respondent’s and the South Konawe Regency Bawaslu’s negligence in carrying out their duties and functions as the implementer and supervisor of the election by passing and certifying candidate pairs 02, 03, 04, these actions can be qualified as actions that violate the provisions of election legislation,” they asserted in the petition.

Therefore, the Petitioners requested the Court to annul the South Konawe KPU Decree No. 2828 of 2024 on the certification of the 2024 South Konawe Regency election results. They also requested the Court to disqualify all candidate pairs in the 2024 South Konawe Regency election. “And [we request the Court] to certify Candidate Pair 01 as the elected candidates in the 2024 South Konawe Regency election,” Asran stressed.

The Court requested the South Konawe KPU (Respondent) to give a response at the next hearing. “KPU, please respond [at the next hearing]. You are alleged to have passed the candidate pairs whose visions and missions do not align with the requirements in terms of format and substance, as stipulated in the PKPU and other statutory provisions,” Chief Justice Suhartoyo concluded.

The petition for Case No. 76/PHPU.BUP-XXIII/2025 can be accessed here.

Author            : Ashri Fadilla
Editor            : N. Rosi
Translator       : Syifa Amelia/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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