Mimika Regency Election Conducted Without Noken Voting System

The Respondent’s legal counsel Afif Rosadiansyah when testifying in examination hearing regarding the 2024 Mimika regent election result dispute at Constitutional Court (1/23/2025).Photo by MKRI/Teguh.

JAKARTA (MKRI) – The Respondent, the Mimika Regency KPU (Elections Commission) denied 100% or more voter turnout in 12 districts, which occurred due to violations such as being marked by ineligible voters. The Respondent believed that Candidate Pair 02 Maximus Tipagau-Peggi Patricia Pattipi (Petitioners) made a mistake in calculating the number of voters in the 2024 Mimika regent election.

The Respondent’s legal counsel Afif Rosadiansyah explained that the Petitioners calculated the voter count using the total from the final voter list (DPT) plus 2.5 percent of reserve ballots based on the DPT at the district level. However, 2.5 percent of reserve ballots were from the DPT at each polling station (TPS). Hence, the Petitioners incorrectly concluded that the number of voters exceeded the DPT and reserve ballots.

Therefore, the Respondent denied the allegation that the election in Mimika was done using the noken system, citing the 100 percent voter turnout as evidence. They asserted that the vote results of the one man one vote had been documented in the C-Results at each TPS and the D-Results in every district.

"This proves that the voting was carried out using a one man one vote system and not the noken system as argued by the Petitioners," said Afif in the examination hearing to hear the Respondent, the Relevant Party, and Bawaslu on Wednesday, January 23, 2025.

In the petition, the Petitioners argued that 100% or more voter turnout occurred in various districts as follows: Agimuga, East Mimika, West Mimika, Jita, Jila, Mimika Timur Jauh, Tembaga Pura, Mimika Barat Jauh, Kwamki Narama, Alama, Amar, Hoya, Central Mimika, Iwaka, Central West Mimika, Mimika Baru, Kuala Kencana, and Wania. They argued that no attendance list of election participants including additional voters or transfer voters, resulted in voters in all TPS in Mimika failing to be verified and validated as eligible voters.

Mimika KPU member Hironimus Kia Ruma admitted that C-Result in several polling stations in Jila District were missing, which led to the vote counting and recapitulation process being carried out at the district level. He argued that the C-Result had not been found until now, and this only occurred in Jila District.

"[Until now] it had not been found, the DPT was 1,430 voters, there were 12 TPS. C-Result are missing but the ballots have been counted at the district level, for Jila it was signed (by all witnesses), yes," said Hironimus before Deputy Chief Justice Saldi Isra (panel chair) and Constitutional Justice Ridwan Mansyur and Arsul Sani.

Hironimus further explained that voters listed in the additional final voter list (DPTb) and special voters list (DPK) are recorded in the D-Results at the district level. Additionally, the D-Results at the regency level include a recapitulation of DPTb and DPK of 18 districts in Mimika Regency. However, he acknowledged that the Mimika KPU did not receive a voter attendance list from the polling station, which would detail all voters who used their voting rights at each TPS.

"Because our officers at the polling station did not upload it to Sirekap, we could not see it and it is probably in the ballot box, Your Honor. The ballot box is in our warehouse in Timika," said Hironimus.

"And during the voting and vote counting, the Petitioners’ witnesses were also present to witness the election process but did not raise any objections," said the Relevant Party’s legal counsel Marvey J Dangeubun.

Member of the Mimika Regency Bawaslu (Election Supervisory Body) Arfah said that no violations were found in the use of election procedures using the noken system or elections not based on the one man one vote system in the 12 Districts questioned by the Petitioners. "There is no noken system, Your Honor," said Arfah.

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Mimika Regency Election Conducted Without Noken Voting System