JAKARTA, LEGAL LITERACY – The Constitutional Court (MK) held a follow-up hearing with the agenda of listening to the Respondent's answers and the testimony of the Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu) for the General Election Results Dispute (PHPU) case for prospective members of the Regional People's Representative Council (DPRD) of Intan Jaya Regency, Intan Jaya Electoral District (Dapil) 3, submitted by Oktovianus Wandikmbo from the Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra), serial number 1.

The trial with case number 68-02-02-36/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024 was held in Panel 3 Hearing Room on Monday (06/05/2024) morning with the Panel of Constitutional Justices Arief Hidayat accompanied by Constitutional Justice Anwar Usman and Constitutional Justice Enny Nurbaningsih.

In this trial, the Respondent provided an explanation regarding the Petitioner's request which had previously argued that there had been fraud in the acquisition of votes. According to the Petitioner, represented by his attorney, Salhan Adiputra Alboneh, at the preliminary hearing previously on Monday (29/4/2024), argued that there had been a loss of the petitioner's votes from four villages totaling 4,772 votes. The Petitioner suspects that the lost votes were robbed and/or eliminated by members of the District Election Committee (PPD) and the Voting Committee (PPS), which were then transferred to other candidates.

According to the Petitioner in his petition, the votes that should have been obtained were 5,049, while the respondent's version (General Election Commission) recorded only 277 votes for the petitioner. On the other hand, the votes obtained by the Caleg from the Gerindra Party serial number 2, Salmon Nagapa, according to the petitioner's claim, should only be 259 from the recorded 5,031. In addition to the difference in votes, the Petitioner, represented by his attorney, revealed that there was a recommendation from the Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu) of Intan Jaya Regency Number: 083/Rekom.01.0/K.PT/08/III/2024 dated, March 05, 2024 concerning the Recommendation for the Cancellation of the Plenary Vote Count Recapitulation Results of Intan Jaya Regency. However, the recommendation was not followed up by the Election Organizer.