JAKARTA, Legal Literacy – The Constitutional Court (MK) held a preliminary hearing for the General Election Results Dispute (PHPU) case for the DPRD of Intan Jaya Regency Electoral District 3 on Monday (29/03/2024) afternoon.
The hearing with case number 141-02-12-36/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024 This was submitted by Akulius Widigipa, a Candidate for DPRD of Intan Jaya Regency from the National Mandate Party (PAN) with serial number 2.
The Petitioner is challenging the KPU's decision regarding the vote acquisition in Electoral District 3 of Intan Jaya Regency. In a hearing led by Constitutional Justice Arief Hidayat, along with Constitutional Justice Anwar Usman and Constitutional Justice Enny Nurbaningsih, the Constitutional Court examined the clarity of the petition submitted by Akulius Widigipa.
In this hearing, the Petitioner stated that there was a significant difference between the vote acquisition determined by the KPU and the data held by the Petitioner.
The Petitioner, through his attorney, claimed that he should have obtained 3,744 votes, but the KPU recorded that he did not obtain any votes or zero.
“According to the Respondent, Akulius' votes are zero, while according to the Petitioner, they are 3,744 votes,” said Sahlan Adi Putra Albone
The Petitioner suspects that his vote acquisition did not match the official vote recapitulation results due to the practice of transferring votes by the Polling Station Committee (PPS) and the District Election Committee (PPD) in two districts. It is suspected that voters' votes were transferred to another candidate within the same party, namely Tomas Agimbau. This resulted in the loss of votes that should have been the petitioner's right.
According to the Petitioner, Tomas Agimbau's votes are 1,403, while according to the respondent, Tomas Agimbau's votes are 5,147. Thus, there is a difference of 3,744 votes which, according to the Petitioner, belong to the Petitioner.
In addition to the difference in votes, the Petitioner in his petition also questioned the election implementation process which was not in accordance with the principles of direct, general, free, and secret (luber and jurdil) as mandated by laws and regulations.
Based on these allegations, the Petitioner requests the Constitutional Court to annul KPU Decree Number 360 of 2024 and determine the results of the vote acquisition according to his claim, namely 3,744 votes, or order the Intan Jaya Regency General Election Commission to conduct a Re-Vote (PSU) in all Districts included in the Intan Jaya 3 Electoral District, including: Biandoga District, Agisiga District and Tomosiga District.
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