JAKARTA, LEGAL LITERACY – The Constitutional Court (MK) held a follow-up hearing with the agenda of listening to the Respondent's answers, the testimony of the Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu), and the testimony of the Related Party for the Dispute over the General Election Results (PHPU) for candidates for members of the House of Representatives (DPR RI) for the Central Papua Electoral District (Dapil) submitted by the Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra).

The trial with case number 91-01-02-36/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024 was held on Monday (06/05/2024) morning in Panel Session Room 3 with the Panel of Constitutional Justices Arief Hidayat accompanied by Constitutional Justice Anwar Usman and Constitutional Justice Enny Nurbaningsih.

In this trial, the Respondent provided an explanation regarding the Petitioner's request which had previously argued that there was an alleged theft of noken votes and alleged Violation of Administrative Obligations. The Petitioner argued that the noken system in Central Papua had been contaminated by structured electoral fraud practices. The Petitioner in the previous preliminary hearing mentioned that the votes that had been tied with the noken system in each district disappeared during the sub-district level plenary session. The recapitulation results at the sub-district level then experienced drastic changes at the district level, and so on to the provincial level. At the provincial level recapitulation plenary session, the votes obtained at the district level suddenly disappeared.

In addition, the Petitioner in its petition suspects that there were violations of the procedures for voting and counting votes in Central Papua, especially in areas that use the Noken/Ikat system. This violation is suspected to have occurred because the administrative obligations regulated in KPU Decree Number 66 of 2024 were not fulfilled.