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 Intan Jaya Regency Regional People's Representative Council (DPRD), Intan Jaya Electoral District (Dapil) 3, which was submitted by Demianus Mazau, a prospective member of the Intan Jaya Regency DPRD from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) number 1.

The trial with case number 163-02-03-36/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024 was held on Monday (06/05/2024) morning in Panel Session Room 3 with the Panel of Judges of the Constitutional Justice 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 individuals from the District Election Committee (PPD) and the Regional General Election Commission (KPUD) of Intan Jaya Regency had transferred votes without the knowledge of the public or the Legislative Candidates whose names received valid votes. In addition to questioning the difference in votes, the Petitioner also argued that the election implementation process did not reflect the principles of direct, general, free, and secret (luber jurdil) as mandated by statutory regulations.