JAKARTA, LEGAL LITERACY – The Constitutional Court (MK) held a follow-up hearing with the agenda of listening to the Respondent's answers, the Election Supervisory Body's (Bawaslu) statement, and the Relevant Party's statement for the General Election Result Dispute (PHPU) case for prospective members of the Regional People's Representative Council (DPRD) of Panai Regency, Paniai Electoral District (Dapil) 2, submitted by the United Development Party (PPP).

The hearing with case number 174-01-17-36/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024 was held in Panel Session Room 3 on Monday (07/05/2024) with the Panel of Judges consisting of Constitutional Justice Arief Hidayat accompanied by Constitutional Justice Anwar Usman and Constitutional Justice Enny Nurbaningsih.

In this hearing, the Respondent provided an explanation regarding the Petitioner's request, which in the previous preliminary hearing argued that there were significant discrepancies in the vote count in the regencies of Paniai and Dogiyai. The Petitioner explained that based on the Noken agreement held by the local tribal chief, the Petitioner's legislative candidate, Albertus Keiya, should have obtained far more votes than stipulated in the official recapitulation. Internal party calculations showed that Keiya received 65,587 valid votes from the agreement, but only 1,025 votes were recorded.

The Petitioner previously…