Legal Literacy - The right of inquiry has become a hot topic of public discussion lately. After the general election and presidential election were held simultaneously on February 14, 2024, various allegations of fraud that occurred at many polling stations in regions of Indonesia emerged to the public and caused a stir. This was exacerbated by the many cases of mismatch between the original vote results data for each polling station listed on the C Plano form and the numerical data entered in the application SIREKAP (Recapitulation Information System) owned by the KPU. Instead of being a form of data transparency, SIREKAP is considered to benefit and inflate the vote acquisition of certain candidate pairs.

The alleged fraud raises big questions in the community who question the performance of the KPU, Bawaslu and related government agencies regarding their neutrality and transparency in the election. The discourse on the right of inquiry then became crowded and became a separate discourse, encouraging the DPR to be pro-active in taking a stand. So what exactly is the right of inquiry, how is the mechanism for its use and is it possible for this right to be used and implemented by the DPR in investigating election fraud?