JAKARTA (MKRI) — The Party of Functional Groups (Golkar) has filed a petition on the 2024 legislative election results dispute to the Constitutional Court (MK). The case No. 247-01-04-04/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024 concerns the recapitulation of the legislative election results for the electoral district (dapil) 3 of Riau for the Regional Legislative Council (DPRD) of Riau Province as well as for the electoral districts of Rokan Hulu 3 and Rokan Hulu 5 for the DPRD of Rokan Hulu Regency. The Petitioner alleges that voters in PT Torganda were mobilized to vote for certain legislative candidates.

The Petitioner claimed that Golkar should have obtained 72,571 votes, 3,137 more than what the Respondent (KPU) certified. Golkar’s votes differed due to several factors, including low permanent voters’ turnout in Tambusai Utara Village of Tambusai Utara Subdistrict because voters did not receive C-notification form from polling station working committees (KPPS) and due to distance between the voters’ residences and the polling stations.

The Petitioner also claimed that PT Torganda employees were mobilized to vote for an Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) Rokan Hulu Regency DPRD candidate number 5 Roni Marusaha Damanik in the electoral district of Rokan Hulu 3. The father of the legislative candidate Roni, PT Torganda General Manager, Jon Sabar Manik, is said to have organized the mobilization. Voters using ID cards from outside Riau Province and outside Rokan Hulu Regency were mobilized, and a number of voters who used their e-ID card voted at polling stations outside PT Torganda plantation area in Tambusai Utara Village.

“Therefore, many voters who are the Petitioner’s constituents in the final voters list could not exercise their voting rights due to deliberate violation allegedly committed by the KPPS in the PT Torganda polling station/plantation area to make unlawful efforts to reduce the final voters’ votes to the disadvantage of the Petitioner,” said the Petitioner’s legal counsel Eva Nora in the plenary courtroom on Monday, April 29, 2024. As a result, PDI-P won the sixth DPRD seat in Riau 3.

In its petitum, the petitioner asks the Court to annul the General Elections Commission (KPU) Decree No. 360 of 2024 on certification of election results for the president and vice president, members of the House of Representatives (DPR), Regional Representative Council (DPD), and provincial and regency/city Regional Legislative Council (DPRD) in the 2024 election for the electoral districts of Riau 3 and Riau 5 to elect Riau Provincial DPRD members. It also requests that the Court order KPU to hold revote in:

a. The electoral district of Riau 3 for Riau Provincial DPRD election at TPS 10-43 and 45-47 of North Tambusai Village and TPS 32, 52, 53, and 58 in Mahato Village of North Tambusai Subdistrict, Rokan Hulu Regency, Riau Province,

b. The electoral district of Rokan Hulu 3 for the Rokan Hulu Regency DPRD at TPS 10, 11, 14-34, and 40-47 of North Tambusai Village in North Tambusai Subdistrict, Rokan Hulu Regency, Riau Province and TPS 32, 52, 53, and 58 of Mahato Village; and

c. The electoral district of Rokan Hulu 5 for the Rokan Hulu Regency DPRD election at TPS 25 and 32 of Ujung Batu Village in Ujung Batu Subdistrict, Rokan Hulu Regency, Riau Province, in accordance with laws and regulations within 14 working days of the decision.

The case No. 247-01-04-04/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024 was heard by Chief Justice Suhartoyo with Constitutional Justices Daniel Yusmic P. Foekh and M. Guntur Hamzah on Panel 1.

Author              : Mimi Kartika
Editor                : Lulu Anjarsari P.
PR                    : Andhini S.F.
Translator         : Dzaki Difa Al Hadiid, Yuniar W.

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