JAKARTA, Legal Literacy – The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Indonesia held a preliminary hearing on the dispute over the election results for candidates for members of the Central Papua Provincial DPRD on Monday (April 29, 2024) afternoon. This case is registered under number 159-02-08-36/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024 in the name of the petitioner Yerry Miagoni, a candidate for member of the Central Papua Provincial DPRD from the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) in the Central Papua II Electoral District, Number 2.
In the preliminary hearing led by Constitutional Justice Arief Hidayat, accompanied by Constitutional Justice Anwar Usman and Constitutional Justice Enny Nurbaningsih, the petitioner argued that there was a difference in votes between the election results determined by the respondent (General Election Commission) and the election results that should have been correct according to the petitioner.
According to the petitioner through his attorney, Regio Alfala Rayandra, the petitioner's vote acquisition should have been 14,870, but according to the results determined by the respondent, the petitioner's vote was zero. “The votes from the petitioner, which according to the respondent are all zero. The petitioner's votes should have been 14,870 votes,” said Regio Alfala Rayandra.
The petitioner filed the petition on the grounds that the significant difference in vote acquisition in the election was caused by fraud. The fraud was in the form of an unlawful reduction of the petitioner's votes in 3 districts, totaling 14,870 votes. The petitioner suspects that members of the District Election Committee (PPD) and the Polling Station Working Committee (PPS) were involved in the act of stealing and/or transferring the votes.
According to the petitioner, the petitioner's stolen and/or eliminated votes were then transferred and added to the votes of other candidates for members of the Provincial DPRD, namely from the National Mandate Party (PAN).
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 the laws and regulations.
On this basis, the petitioner, through his attorney, requested the Court to grant his petition in its entirety, annul the General Election Commission Decree Number 360 of 2024, and determine the correct vote acquisition results according to the petitioner or order the Intan Jaya Regency General Election Commission to conduct a Re-Vote (PSU) in all districts included in the Central Papua II Electoral District, including: Biandoga District, Hitadipa District, Ugimba District, Agisiga District, Tomosiga District, Homeyo District, Wandai District, and Sugapa District, or at least in 3 districts, namely: Homeyo District, Wandai District, and Sugapa District.
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