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Prabowo legal team directs attack at Ma’ruf Amin

The Prabowo legal team highlights vice presidential candidate Ma'ruf Amin's status at two sharia banks, but experts doubt their attempt to overturn the election result will bear fruit.

Ghina Ghaliya (The Jakarta Post)
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Mon, June 17, 2019

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Prabowo legal team directs attack at Ma’ruf Amin Indonesian President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo (center left), his vice presidential candidate Maruf Amin (centre right) and coalition party leaders hold a press conference after the country's general election in Jakarta on April 17, 2019. Jokowi was on track to be re-elected as president of the world's third-biggest democracy on April 17 with pollsters giving him a wide lead over rival Prabowo Subianto, an ex-general. (JP/Seto Wardhana)

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n a further attempt to overturn the result of the 2019 presidential election, the opposition camp has launched an attack against incumbent Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s running mate Ma’ruf Amin, highlighting his current position at state-owned banks in its revised petition to the Constitutional Court.

The Election Law stipulates that presidential and vice presidential candidates must resign from any public positions before registering their candidacy.

The legal team of losing presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto's camp on Tuesday submitted 154 new pieces of evidence, adding to the 51 pieces that they previously submitted. Among the evidence was the fact that Ma’ruf currently holds a position as chair of the Sharia Supervisory Board BNI Syariah and Mandiri Syariah, subsidaries of state-owned banks BNI and Bank Mandiri, respectively. 

The head of the legal team, Bambang Widjojanto — also a former commissioner at the antigraft agency — said the new evidence would support their arguments to overturn the official presidential election result by the General Elections Commission (KPU), which declared Jokowi and Ma’ruf the winners of the election with 55.5 percent of the vote against Prabowo’s 44.4 percent.

“Ma’ruf is still on the BNI Syariah and Mandiri Syariah websites, which violates Article 227 of the Election Law. A presidential or vice presidential candidate must not be an employee or an official of any state-owned enterprise [SOE],” Bambang told reporters on Monday.

The petition also included other pieces of evidence, including urls to articles and videos of resident testimonies insinuating that the election process had been compromised in favor of the incumbent.

Deputy head of the Jokowi-Ma'ruf ticket legal team Arsul Sani said that, technically, neither of the sharia banks constituted SOEs because not all the capital of both banks came directly from the state, citing Law No.19/2003 on SOEs.

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