The ruling hearing for Case No. 232/PHPU.BUP-XXIII/2025 on dispute over the 2024 Jeneponto regent election results, Monday (2/24/2025). Photo by MKRI/Bayu.

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JAKARTA (MKRI) — The Constitutional Court (MK) rejected the petition for Case No. 232/PHPU.BUP-XXIII/2025 regarding the dispute over the 2024 Jeneponto regent election results, filed by Candidate Pair Number 3 Muhammad Sarif and Moch Noer Alim Qalby. The Court rejected the Petitioners’ petitum for a revote at 25 polling stations (TPS) in several areas in Jeneponto Regency.

“On the petition’s subject matter, [the Court] rejects the Petitioners’ petition in its entirety,” said Chief Justice Suhartoyo delivering the verdict at the ruling hearing on Monday, February 24, 2025.

Delivering the Court’s legal consideration, Constitutional Justice Arsul Sani explained that the Petitioners could not prove their allegation that voters registered on the online final voters list (DPT) had allegedly voted outside of their designated polling stations (TPS) in Jeneponto Regency as follows: TPS 002 in Tanammawang Village, Bontoramba District; TPS 001 and TPS 005 in Mangepong Village, Turatea District; TPS 004 in Bontomatene Village, Turatea District; TPS 003 and TPS 004 in Bungeng Village, Batang District; and TPS 002 in Arungkeke Village, Arungkeke District. However, the Jeneponto Regency KPU (Elections Commission) refuted the Petitioners’ allegation, arguing that those voters were listed in the special voters list (DPK) and had voted in the area listed on their electronic ID cards.

The Court had heard a testimony by the Jeneponto Regency Bawaslu (Elections Supervisory Body), who stated that the alleged violation at said polling stations did not fulfill the elements for a revote. As such, the report was stopped because it did not satisfy the formal and material requirements. The Petitioners’ witnesses at the polling stations had also signed the recapitulation results and none of the witnesses of the candidate pairs had raised any objection to the recapitulation results at the polling stations.

“The Petitioners also could not prove that the voters have allegedly used their voting right outside Jeneponto Regency,” Justice Arsul argued.

According to the Court, voters are allowed to use their electronic ID cards to vote, and this right is guaranteed by the Constitution in order to gain fair legal certainty and optimum benefit in the implementation of election. The Court argued that citizens can vote using electronic ID cards at polling stations within the region on the ID cards.

“This has been confirmed by the provisions of Article 53 of the KPU Regulation No. 7 of 2024, which basically states that special voters can use their voting rights at polling stations located in the RT (neighborhood unit) or RW (community unit) or other designations in accordance with the address stated on the electronic ID card (KTP), KK (family registry), population biodata, or digital population identity,” said Justice Arsul.

The Court was of the opinion that the Petitioners’ petition was not well-founded according to law in its entirety. The Court also held that the Petitioners’ arguments could not be further proven and the Petitioners’ a quo petition was irrelevant and unreasonable according to law.

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KPU Ignored Revote Recommendation in Jeneponto Regent Election

KPU Jeneponto Accuses Petitioners of Vote Manipulation

KPU Did Not Revote 10 Polls in Jeneponto Regency

Jeneponto Regent Candidate Pair 1 Muhammad Sarif and Moch Noer Alim Qalby argued that the vote difference between them and Candidate Pair 2 Paris Yasir and Islam Iskandar was because the Jeneponto Regency KPU as Respondent had dismissed the recommendation for a revote by the district elections supervisory committee (Panwascam). They also complained that there had been similar autographs in the list of voters who voted at the polling stations, resulting in a violation of voting rights.

In their petitums, the Petitioners requested the Court to annul the Jeneponto KPU Decree No. 799 of 2024 on the certification of the 2024 regent election results dated December 8, 2024 and to declare the lawful vote acquisition as deemed correct according them: Candidate Pair 1 Efendi Al Qadri Mulyadi-Andry Suryana Arief Bulu to have won 6,856 votes, Candidate Pair 2 Paris Yasir-Islam Iskandar 83,657 votes, Candidate Pair 3 Muhammad Sarif-Moch Noer Alim Qalby 85,547 votes, and Candidate Pair 4 Syamsuddin Karlos-M Syafruddin Nurdin 26,119 votes. They also requested the Court, at the very least, to order the KPU to conduct a revote at 25 polling stations.

Also read:

Petition for Case No. 232/PHPU.BUP-XXIII/2025
Response by the Respondent
Statement by Bawaslu
Statement by the Relevant Party

Author               : Mimi Kartika
Editor                : N. Rosi
PR                    : Andhini S.F./Tiara A./Fauzan F.
Translator         : Dinita Aktivia/Yuniar Widiastuti (NL)

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