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KPU to push ahead with 2024 balloting despite ruling to delay election
The KPU, said it would appeal Thursday's ruling by the Central Jakarta district court, which was issued over a lawsuit filed by an obscure party after its application to contest elections was rejected last year.
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Workers from the Depok General Elections Commission (KPU) stack ballot boxes on November 25, 2020 at a warehouse in Cimanggis district, Depok, West Java. (JP/P.J.Leo)
The General Election Commission (KPU) said on Thursday vowed to forge ahead with organising next year's presidential election, defying a surprise ruling by a district court to halt all election processes for more than two years.
The KPU, said it would appeal Thursday's ruling by the Central Jakarta district court, which was issued over a lawsuit filed by an obscure party after its application to contest elections was rejected last year.
The country's biggest party and the top security minister minister dismissed the ruling and said a district court has no authority to decide election issues.
It was not immediately clear why the court ordered all election processes to stop, which at the earliest would push back to 2025 elections for a new president and legislature.
"Any laws regulating election processes and schedules are still legal and legally binding," KPU chief Hasyim Asy'ari told a news conference, adding it would continue its work regardless of the ruling.
The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) said the court had no right to make such a decision and the judges should be investigated.
"PDI-P thinks the court's ruling must be annulled," its secretary general, Hasto Kristiyanto, said in a statement.
