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Constitutional Court grills Prabowo's witnesses
Various testimonies, ranging from millions of alleged invalid ID card numbers to suspected vote-stamping attempts by an election worker, were brought before the nine-panel bench, whose members were by turns angry and amused by the witnesses.
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Mountains of evidence: Members of presidential candidate pair Prabowo Subianto–Sandiaga Uno‘s national campaign team organize documents it will use as evidence during hearing sessions of its legal lawsuit against the presidential election result at the Constitutional Court in Jakarta on Wednesday. The Prabowo–Sandi legal team withdrew 94 boxes of evidence it had previously submitted for the lawsuit.
(The Jakarta Post/Seto Wardhana)
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osing candidate Prabowo Subianto found his camp in hot water during the presidential election dispute hearing on Wednesday, as the Constitutional Court’s justices grilled his legal team and witnesses over their claims of widespread electoral fraud in the election.
The justices even questioned the whereabouts of evidence necessary for the Prabowo-Sandiaga Uno pair to prove its claim that there had been an incorrect final voter list (DPT), which the ticket alleged had inflated the number of votes gained by incumbent President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and his vice presidential candidate Ma’ruf Amin.
Prabowo’s legal team presented a total of 14 witnesses and experts during an hours-long hearing session to strengthen what experts dubbed a seemingly weak lawsuit — the camp’s last-ditch effort to overturn Jokowi’s reelection victory.
Various testimonies, ranging from millions of alleged invalid ID card numbers to suspected vote-stamping attempts by an election worker, were brought before the nine-panel bench, whose members were by turns angry and amused by the witnesses.
Agus Muhammad Maksum, an IT director in the Prabowo-Sandiaga campaign team, was the first witness who testified that his team had found, among other things, more than 1 million voters on the DPT with invalid ID card numbers and hundreds of thousands of others with invalid family card numbers that made up the figure of 17.5 million problematic voters.
He gave the example of someone named “Udung”, whose ID card number had an unregistered provincial code but he was listed on the DPT, and suggested that he and other people with such invalid ID cards were made-up voters.
“These people don’t exist in real life so even if we [look for them], we won’t find them,” Agus told the court.
