Petition Obscure, Mappi regent election dispute Dismisses
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The ruling hearing for case No. 128/PHPU.BUP-XXIII/2025 on the 2024 Mappi regent election results dispute, Wednesday (2/5/2025). Photo by MKRI.


JAKARTA, MKRI - The Constitutional Court (MK) decided that it could not accept the petition for the dispute over the 2024 Mappi regent election results filed by Candidate Pair Number 5 Benedictus Amoiye and Benedictus Tori Paliling. The Decision No. 128/PHPU.BUP-XXIII/2025 was read out by the Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court Suhartoyo, accompanied by eight other Constitutional Justices in the ruling hearing on Wednesday (2/5/2025).

In the consideration pronounced by Constitutional Justice Saldi Isra, the Court stated that the Petition did not fulfill the formal requirements of the petition. Therefore, there was no hesitation for the Court to declare the Petitioners’ petition unclear or obscure.

Furthermore, Justice Saldi said that because the Court was of the opinion that the Petitioners’ petition was vague, other exceptions, the respondent's response, the relevant party’s statement, Bawaslu’s statement, and the subject matter of the petition were not considered further.

“The arguments other than and the rest are not considered further because they are considered irrelevant,” stated Justice Saldi.

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Mappi regent-vice regent candidates 05 Benediktus Amoiye and Benedictus Tori Paliling argued that there was a difference in data tabulation between voter data, the number of final voters, and the number of final voters who exercised their right to vote in the Mappi regent election. They also raised concerns about vote buying or “money politics” during the election. These allegations were presented at the preliminary examination hearing for Case No. 128/PHPU.BUP-XXIII/2025 on the Mappi regent election results, which was presided over by Deputy Chief Justice Saldi Isra (panel chair) and Constitutional Justices Ridwan Mansyur and Arsul Sani on panel 2 on Wednesday, January 15, 2025. In data tabulation, there were differences between the minutes and certificates of the vote count recapitulation from polling stations in villages and those from polling stations in districts. One of the differences observed by the Petitioners was the recapitulation of the number of voters in the final voter list (DPT) who exercised their voting rights in Assue District and the regency. The number of voters, based on the recapitulation in Assue District, was 5,885, while based on the recapitulation at the regency level, it was 5,874.

Therefore, the Petitioners requested the Court to disqualify Candidate Pair 03 Kristosimus Yohanes Agawemu and Sanusi and to declare the Petitioners as the candidate pair with the highest vote amounting to 21,717.

Author          : Ahmad Sulthon Zainawi.
Editor           : N. Rosi.
Translator     : Dinita Aktivia/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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