The Petitioners’ legal counsel Roslindawati at the ruling hearing for Case No. 175/PHPU.BUP-XXIII/2025 on the Dogiyai regent election results dispute, Wednesday (2/5/2025) Photo by MKRI/Ifa.

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JAKARTA (MKRI) - The Constitutional Court (MK) declared that the petition on the 2024 Dogiyai regent election results dispute filed by Candidate Pair 06 Oskar Makai and Yani Bobi (Petitioners) inadmissible. The verdict of Decision No. 175/PHPU.BUP-XXIII/2025 was delivered by Chief Justice Suhartoyo at the ruling hearing on Wednesday, February 5, 2025.

Chief Justice Suhartoyo stated that the petition failed to meet the formal requirements, leaving no doubt for the Court to declare the Petitioners’ petition unclear or vague. Consequently, the exceptions raised by the Respondent and Relevant Party, asserting that the Petitioner’s petition was unclear, were deemed legally justified.

“[The Court] adjudicated, on the exceptions regarding the [Court’s] authority or deadline for filing the petition, on the petition’s subject matter: to declare the Petitioners’ petition inadmissible,” said Chief Justice Suhartoyo while reading out the verdict for this case in the plenary courtroom, alongside the other eight constitutional justices.

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Noken Votes Transferred to Another Candidate Pair Due to Intimidation

Dogiyai KPU Denies Vote Transfer With Noken System at the Regency Election

At the preliminary examinatin hearing on Thursday, January 16, the Petitioners presented the vote acquisition of the candidate pairs according to the Respondent as follows: Candidate Pair 01 Ruben Magai–Mateus Douw obtained 7,944 votes, Candidate Pair 02 Yudas Tebai–Yuliten Anauw received 41,900 votes, Candidate Pair 03 Otopianus P. Tebai–Angkian Goo secured 9,618 votes, Candidate Pair 04 Alfred Fredy Anouw–Orgenes Kotoki garnered 23,407 votes, Candidate Pair 05 Freny Anouw–Abni Auwe secured 2,292 votes, and Candidate Pair 06 Oskar Makai–Yani Bobi (Petitioners) obtained 10,919 votes, with a total of 98,080 valid votes. However, the Petitioners argued that the actual votes were different, with Candidate Pair 02 Yudas Tebai–Yuliten Anauw receiving 21,900 votes and the Petitioners obtaining 30,919 votes.

According to the Petitioners, the difference in votes in the election occurred because there was an error in the vote counting at the district election committee (PPK). The organizer counted the noken* votes initially belonging to Petitioners but transferred them to Candidate Pair 02 in Yametadi Village, Kamu Utara District. This happened because of intimidation carried out by the Candidate Pair 02 campaign team against the Yametadi polling committee (PPS) in Kamu Utara District, so that the PPS (polling committee) transferred the noken votes from the Petitioners to Candidate Pair 02.

(*) The noken voting system is carried out by communities in Papua, either through public agreement on vote allocation or through the delegation of votes to a tribal leader.

Author              : Sri Pujianti
Editor                : N. Rosi
Translator         : Nazila Rikhusshuba/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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