The Petitioner’s legal counsel attending the pronouncement hearing of the interagency authority dispute (SKLN) between the South Kalimantan branch of LPRI and Banjarbaru Gakkumdu, Thursday (6/26/2025) in the plenary courtroom of the Constitutional Court. Photo by MKRI/Ifa.

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JAKARTA (MKRI) — The Constitutional Court (MK) officially ruled on the withdrawal of a petition filed by Syarifah Hayana, Chairperson of the South Kalimantan Regional Executive Board of the Indonesian Reform Monitoring Institution (LPRI), in an interagency authority dispute (SKLN) against the Banjarbaru Integrated Law Enforcement (Gakkumdu). The pronouncement hearing of case No. 1/SKLN-XXIII/2025 was held on Thursday, June 26, 2025, in the plenary courtroom of the Court.

Delivering the decree, Chief Justice Suhartoyo explained that the Court had received both the petition and a subsequent letter of withdrawal from the Petitioner. The Court had confirmed this withdrawal during a previous hearing, in which the Petitioner affirmed the intention to retract the petition. Through its justice deliberation meetings (RPH) on June 4 and June 23, 2025, the Court found the withdrawal to be legally sound. As a consequence, the Petitioner is no longer entitled to file the same petition in the future.

“The Court grants the withdrawal request of the Petitioner. Declares that petition No. 1/SKLN-XXIII/2025 has been withdrawn. Declares that the Petitioner is not permitted to refile the same petition. Orders the Registrar to record the withdrawal of petition No. 1/SKLN-XXIII/2025 in the electronic constitutional case registration book (e-BRPK) and to return a copy of the case files to the Petitioner,” said Chief Justice Suhartoyo, delivering the Court’s ruling.

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In the original petition, the Petitioner argued that LPRI met the requirements to serve as an accredited election monitoring institution during the revote of the 2025 Banjarbaru mayoral election. LPRI had received certification from the South Kalimantan Provincial Elections Commission (KPU Kalsel) to that effect.

The election was originally contested by two candidate pairs: Lisa Halaby–Wartono (Pair No. 1) and Aditya Mufti Arifin–Said Abdullah (Pair No. 2). However, on October 31, 2024, the Banjarbaru City KPU disqualified Pair No. 2 for allegedly violating Article 71(3) in conjunction with (5) of the Regional Elections Law.

Despite the disqualification, the KPU did not proceed with the legally required mechanism of running a sole candidate against a blank column, as stipulated under KPU Regulation No. 13 of 2018. Instead, the ballot papers still featured both pairs, but votes cast for Pair No. 2 were deemed invalid by the KPU. According to the Petitioner, this and other irregularities severely undermined the integrity of the election process.

Moreover, the Petitioner claimed to have been subjected to various forms of intimidation and threats, including the revocation of their observer accreditation and the naming of LPRI’s regional chair, Syarifah Hayana, as a suspect in a case the Petitioner considered fabricated.

Accordingly, the Petitioner requested that the Court declare that the Respondent lacked the authority to issue Warrant No. S.Tap/54.a/V/Res.1.24/2025/Reskrim dated May 12, 2025, which named Hayana as a criminal suspect. The Petitioner also asked the Court to affirm its constitutional standing to file a regional election results dispute over the Banjarbaru mayoral revote, as determined by South Kalimantan Provincial KPU Decree No. 69 of 2025, issued and announced on Monday, April 21, 2025 at 11:30 p.m. Central Indonesia Time (WITA). 

Author: Sri Pujianti
Editor: Lulu Anjarsari P.
PR: Andhini S.F.
Translator: Yuanna Sisilia

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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