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 Regional People's Representative Council (DPRD) election dispute case for prospective members of the Provincial DPRD, Electoral District (Dapil) Central Papua II, submitted by Yerry Miagoni, a prospective member of the Central Papua Provincial DPRD from the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), serial number 2.

The hearing with case number 159-02-08-36/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024 was held on Monday (06/05/2024) morning in Panel Session Room 3 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 had previously been read out at the preliminary hearing on Monday (29/4/2024) afternoon. In his petition, the Petitioner argued that there was a significant difference in the vote acquisition between the KPU's determination results and the election results that he believed to be correct.

The Petitioner stated that his vote acquisition should have been 14,870, but in the KPU's determination results, his votes were recorded as zero. The…