JAKARTA, LEGAL LITERACY – The Constitutional Court (MK) held a Preliminary Hearing for the Dispute over the General Election Results (PHPU) for the DPR-DPRD on Thursday (2/5/2024) afternoon. The hearing was presided over by Constitutional Justice Arief Hidayat, accompanied by Constitutional Justice Anwar Usman and Constitutional Justice Enny Nurbaningsih. The hearing, which took place in Panel 3 Hearing Room of the MK, handled the case with number 226-01-17-24/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024, filed by the United Development Party (PPP). The representatives of PPP were H. Muhamad Mardiono as Acting Chairman and H. M. Arwani Thomafi as Secretary General. This case concerns the filling of members of the Tarakan City DPRD in the Electoral District (Dapil) 1 of Central Tarakan District, Tarakan City, North Kalimantan Province, with the object of the petition being the Decision of the General Election Commission (KPU) Number 360 of 2024.

In the trial, the petitioner argued that there had been an administrative violation of the General Election committed by a Legislative Candidate named Erick Hendrawan Septian Putra from the Golongan Karya (Golkar) Party. This was based on the Decision of the Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu) of Tarakan City Number 002/LP/ADM.PL/BWSL/KOTA/24.01/III/2024 dated March 19, 2024, concerning the alleged Administrative Violation of the Election with a ruling…