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12 petitions against election results filed
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People wait for ballots to be counted in Dikiyouwa village, Kamu district, Dogiyai, Papua on Feb. 15. Four polling stations catered to 1,685 voters. (JP/Nethy Dharma Somba)
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ess than a month after the 2017 regional elections took place, the Constitutional Court has received 12 petitions against the results at the municipality and regency levels.
The court, which is accepting election petitions until Feb. 28 for regencies and municipalities and until March 1 for the provincial level, has yet to receive any reports from the provinces.
The disputes are from Takalar regency in South Sulawesi, Central Bengkulu regency in Bengkulu, Gayo Lues and Nagan Raya regencies in Aceh, Dogiyai and Sarmi regencies in Papua, Kendari and Bombana regencies in Southeast Sulawesi, Salatiga and Jepara in Central Java, Morotai Island regency in North Maluku and Tebo regencies in Jambi.
Court chief justice Arief Hidayat said Monday that people could file petitions three days after the respective regions announced the election results, as stipulated in the 2016 Regional Elections Law.
“The court will start registering all the petitions on March 13. [...] We’ve prepared all aspects to handle the entire process for election disputes, from infrastructure and security, coordinating with the National Police and Kodam Jaya [Jakarta Military Command],” Arief said as quoted by kompas.com.
The country held regional elections in 101 regions on Feb. 15, comprising seven gubernatorial elections, 18 mayor elections and 76 regent elections.
Arief was sure that the court would not reach a deadlock in handling the election disputes, even though there were only six justices following the arrest of former justice Patrialis Akbar by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). (nfr/evi)
