Chief Justice Suhartoyo and Deputy Chief Justice Saldi Isra at a ruling hearing on the 2024 regional election results disputes, Tuesday (2/4/2025). Photo by MKRI/Ifa.

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JAKARTA (MKRI) – The Constitutional Court (MK) dismissed the petition for case No. 37/PHPU.BUP-XXIII/2025 on the 2024 Pohuwato regent election results dispute. At the ruling hearing, the Court stated that the Petitioners’ petition was vague.

In the legal considerations, delivered by Constitutional Justice Arief Hidayat, the Court explained that the petition did not meet the formal requirements as it lacked clarity and specificity. “Given these reasons, the Court has no hesitation to declare the Petitioners’ petition as vague or obscuur. Therefore, the Respondent and the Relevant Party’s exceptions asserting the petition’s lack of clarity were legally justified,” explained Justice Arief.

Therefore, the Court was of the opinion that the petition was unclear, thus exceptions of the Respondent and the Relevant Party, and testimony of the Bawaslu (Elections Supervisory Body) were not pursued further.

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Author: Utami Argawati
Editor: Lulu Anjarsari P.
PR: Tiara Agustina
Translator: Syifa Amelia/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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