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Court kicks off hearings for legislative election disputes
The court will hear and decide on nearly 300 election dispute petitions filed by political parties and candidates alike, before delivering the final ruling for each case by June 10.
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The general view of the Constitutional Court building in Jakarta ahead of a 2024 presidential election result dispute hearing on April 22, 2024. (Antara/Fakhri Hermansyah)
With the dust of the 2024 presidential election dispute now settled, the Constitutional Court officially started on Monday the hearings of challenges to legislative election results from political parties and candidates alike.
The court received a total of 297 complaints from parties and legislative candidates that were lodged throughout the registration period for election disputes this year; 36 more than the disputes handled by the court following the 2019 elections.
Of the 171 petitions filed by political parties, most came from the Democratic Party and presidential-elect Prabowo Subianto’s Gerindra Party, with both parties filing 32 cases each. In terms of provinces, Central Papua, one of the country’s newest provinces, topped the chart with 26 petitions.
The court has split the nine justices into three separate panels. The first panel consists of Chief Justice Suhartoyo, who will preside over the panel, and Justices Daniel Yusmic Foekh and Guntur Hamzah.
The second panel is led by Deputy Chief Justice Saldi Isra and consists of Justices Ridwan Mansyur and Arsul Sani. Arief Hidayat, who served as chief justice between 2015 and 2018, will chair a panel alongside Justices Enny Nurbaningsih and former chief justice Anwar Usman.
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The panels held 79 hearings on Monday, in which justices heard the petitions from plaintiffs, such as the United Development Party (PPP), the National Awakening Party (PKB) and the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P). The General Elections Commission (KPU) was the defendant.
