The court is set to announce on Monday of next week its decision on whether to lower the minimum age for presidential and vice presidential candidates from 40 to 35, just nine days before the registration deadline for presidential and vice presidential candidates.

The justices have finished reviewing three petitions that seek to change the requirements for presidential and vice presidential candidates. The petitions were lodged by the Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI), the Garuda Party and Bukittinggi Mayor Erman Safar along with Deputy South Lampung Regent Pandu Kesuma Dewangsa.

The PSI’s petition seeks to change the minimum age to 35 years. The one filed by the Garuda Party seeks to maintain the current minimum age of 40 and add the requirement of being “experienced as a regional head/deputy regional head”.

A ruling in favor of the petitioners would clear the way for Jokowi’s eldest son, Gibran Rakabumi Raka, the 36-year-old mayor of Surakarta who has recently been mentioned as a potential vice-presidential candidate, to run in the upcoming race.

Gibran has acknowledged having received several offers from Prabowo Subianto to serve as his running mate but has declined to reveal whether he would enter the race if the court decided to clear the way by lowering the minimum age for the vice presidency.

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