The Petitioners’ legal counsel Masherdata, attending the ruling hearing for case No. 25/PHPU.BUP-XXIII/2025 on the 2024 Banyuasin regent election results dispute, Tuesday (2/4/2025). Photo by MKRI/Ifa.

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JAKARTA (MKRI) — The Constitutional Court (MK) ruled the petition for case No. 25/PHPU.BUP-XXIII/2025 on the 2024 Banyuasin regent election results dispute inadmissible. The ruling, filed by candidate pair 2 (Slamet and Alfi Novtriansyah Rustam), was delivered by Chief Justice Suhartoyo along with the other eight constitutional justices.

“[The Court] adjudicated, on the petition’s subject matter, declaring the Petitioners’ petition inadmissible,” stated Chief Justice Suhartoyo reading out the verdict.

In its consideration, the Court considered that the Petitioners’ arguments, including the structured, systematic and massive (TSM) violations of vote-buying, was unproven. The Court also reviewed the Banyuasin Regency Bawaslu (Election Supervisory Body) supervisory results on the vote recapitulation results. According to Bawaslu’s supervision, Petitioners’ witnesses raised objections regarding data entry errors in additional final voters list (DPTb) and special voters list (DPK) at polling station (TPS) 07 in Mariana Ilir, Banyuasin I District. These objections were addressed by comparing the C-results forms (regent-vice regent votes) with the D-result forms, and the data were found to be consistent with Bawaslu Banyuasin Regency’s records.

“Based on the entire description of the legal considerations mentioned above, the Court did not have confidence in the validity of the Petitioners’ main arguments in the petition,” stated Constitutional Justice Daniel Yusmic P. Foekh.

Justice Foekh stated this consideration supports the Court’s view that no reason exists to override the provision of Article 158 of Law 10 of 2016 (Pilkada Law) concerning the Petitioners’ legal standing as a formal requirement for filing the petition.

The Court also considered that the implementation of the 2024 Banyuasin regent elections had followed the applicable provisions. As such, the Court decided not to proceed with this case.

“Therefore, [the Court viewed] no relevance to proceed with the a quo petition at the evidentiary hearing,” stated Justice Foekh.

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The Petitioners alleged that the vote-buying was conducted in a structured manner from the regency to the polling station levels. Furthermore, they suspected the massive vote-buying had employed field electoral coordinators, witnesses, and volunteers.

As such, in the petitums, the Petitioners requested the Court to annul the Banyuasin KPU decree on the certification of 2024 Banyuasin regent election results. They also asked the Court to order the Respondent to do a revote and disqualify the other candidate pair.

Author       : Ashri Fadilla

Editor        : N. Rosi
Translator  : Ryan Alfian/FS (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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