JAKARTA, LEGAL LITERACY – The General Elections Commission (KPU), as the Respondent in the election result dispute, stated that Sri Sulartiningsih, a candidate for the Regional Representative Council (DPD RI) from North Kalimantan Province, had made a mistake in comparing vote count data based on tiered recapitulation. This was conveyed by the KPU in a hearing led by Constitutional Justice Arief Hidayat, accompanied by Constitutional Justice Anwar Usman and Constitutional Justice Enny Nurbaningsih, in case number 08-24\/PHPU.DPD-XXII\/2024.

“Based on the Petitioner's argument, the Petitioner made a mistake in comparing data, because the Petitioner compared the C Plano version of the Petitioner with the D Result Regency\/City,” said M. Faiz Putra Syanel, Legal Counsel for the Respondent at the Hearing held in Panel Room 3, Monday (13\/05\/2024).

The KPU emphasized that if the Petitioner wants to compare C Plano data (Petitioner's version), the data should be compared with D-Result data at the Sub-district Level, not with D-Result at the Regency\/City Level. This is because the substance of the D-Result at the Sub-district Level contains attachments regarding vote acquisition data at the polling stations in each Village\/Kelurahan, so that a data comparison can be clearly seen. However, it is different from the D-Result at the Regency\/City Level, which of course does not…