The Petitioners’ legal counsel when attending the ruling hearing for Case No.117/PHPU.BUP-XXIII/2025 on the Pangkajene and Islands Regency election results dispute, Wednesday (2/5/2025). Photo by MKRI/Bayu.

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JAKARTA (MKRI) — The Constitutional Court (MK) ruled the petition for case No. 117/PHPU.BUP-XXIII/2025 on the 2024 Pangkajene and Islands regent election results dispute inadmissible. The North Tapanuli regent-vice regent candidate pair 1 (Satika Simamora and Sarlandy Hutabarat) filed this petition. Chief Justice Suhartoyo presided over the ruling hearing on Wednesday, February 5, 2025.

“[The Court] adjudicated, on the petition’s subject matter, declaring the Petitioners’ petition for this case inadmissible,” stated Chief Justice Suhartoyo reading out the verdict accompanied by the other eight Justices.

In its legal considerations, delivered by Constitutional Justice Arief Hidayat, the Court asserted that the Petitioner did not satisfy the formal requirements, specifically the unclear or obscure reasons in the petition. As such, the Court viewed the Respondent’s and the Related Party’s exceptions to be legally sound.

“Based on the legal consideration above, the Court viewed that the Petitioners’ petition lacked legal standing. Therefore, the Court will not further consider other exceptions, the Respondent's response, the Related Party's statement, Elections Supervisory Body (Bawaslu) statement, and the petition’s subject matter,” explained Justice Arief.

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According to the Petitioner, the Pangkep regency KPU (the Respondent) disregards and neglects this matter despite it violates the regulations. 

Author       : Utami Argawati

Editor        : Lulu Anjarsari P.

PR                : Tiara Agustina
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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