The Petitioners’ legal counsel Deka Putra at the ruling hearing for case No. 125/PHPU.BUP-XXIII/2025 on the 2024 Kerinci regent election results dispute, Wednesday (2/5/2025). Photo by MKRI/Ifa.

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JAKARTA (MKRI) — The Constitutional Court (MK) rendered the petition for Case No. 125/PHPU.BUP-XXIII/2025 on the Kerinci regent election results dispute inadmissible. The decree for the petition by Candidate Pair 1 Darmadi–Darifus was delivered at the ruling hearing in the plenary courtroom chaired by Chief Justice Suhartoyo on Wednesday, February 5 2025.

In its legal considerations, delivered by Constitutional Justice Arsul Sani, the Court explained that the petition did not fulfill the formal requirements, thus the Court did not hesitate to declare the Petitioners’ petition to be vague or obscure. Therefore, the Respondent and the Relevant Party’s exceptions were reasonable according to law.

For that reason, the remaining exceptions, the response from the Respondent and the statements from the Relevant Party and Bawaslu (Elections Supervisory Body), and the petition’s subject matter were not considered by the Court.

“On the exceptions for the remainder, [the Court] did not consider them any further since they had no relevance,” Deputy Chief Justice Saldi Isra stated.

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At the preliminary hearing on Friday, January 10, 2025, the Petitioners, Candidate Pair 1, argued teacher mobilization as one of the violations conducted by Candidate Pair 3 Monadi and Murison in the 2024 Kerinci regent election. The Petitioners’ legal counsel Deka Putera revealed that the teachers and principals had been massively mobilized, as the vice regent Candidate 3 himself was a former head of Education Department of the regency. Deka also stated that the acting head of Education Department, Zafran, who was appointed not long ago by his brother Asraf (acting regent) also expressed support for Candidate Pair 3.

Author              : Ahmad Sulthon Zainawi
Editor                : N. Rosi
Translator          : M. Hafidh Al Mukmin/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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