Constitutional Court Orders 16 Regions To Re-Vote, But Budgets In 7 Regions Are Not Ready
JAKARTA - The Constitutional Court (MK) ordered the General Election Commission (KPU) to hold another vote in 15 regions and 1 region for recounting votes. In total, there are 16 regions that have dispute over the results of the 2020 Local Election (Pilkada).
Responding to this, the Commissioner of the Indonesian Election Commission, Pramono Ubaid Tanthowi, admitted that his party had held a coordination meeting with provincial and district/city Election Commission to investigate the readiness of re-vote.
As a result, Pramono said, there were seven regions where the remaining 2020 Pilkada budget was not sufficient to hold a re-voting (PSU), either in part or in all of the existing polling stations.
"There are still seven regions whose budget requirements for re-voting (PSU) exceed the remaining available budget, including two regions that implement re-voting (PSU) at all polling stations," Pramono told reporters, Monday, March 29.
Meanwhile, nine other regions have sufficient budgets to implement the re-voting. This budget comes from the remaining results of the efficiency made by the General Election Commission ranks in managing the grant budget from the respective regional governments.
"For these nine regions, all that needs to be done is the submission of budget revisions according to the needs of each re-voting," said Pramono.
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For the seven regions whose budgets were not sufficient to hold re-voting, Pramono continued, the Indonesian General Election Commission asked the regional Election Commission to communicate with the regional government and the Regional House of Representative, respectively to submit additional budget proposals.
"For these seven regions, we also ask them to send a copy letter to the Indonesian Election Commission, so that it can communicate and advocate to the Ministry of Home Affairs," he explained.
The following are the 16 regions that were requested by the Constitutional Court to hold Re-voting:
1. Case Number 32 PHPU Teluk Wondama Regency, West Papua
2. Case Number 12 PHPU Sekadau Regency, West Kalimantan
3. Case Number 97 PHPU Yalimo Regency, Papua
4. Case Number 84 and 101 PHPU Nabire Regency, Papua
5. Case Number 132 PHPU Boven Digul Regency, Papua
6. Case Number 104 PHPU North Morowali Regency, Central Sulawesi
7. Case Number 124 PHPU South Kalimantan Province
8. Case Number 37 PHPU Kab. South Labuhanbatu, North Sumatra
9. Case Number 57 PHPU North Halmahera Regency, North Maluku
10. Case Number 58 PHPU Labuhanbatu Regency, North Sumatra
11. Case Number 16 PHPU Penukal Abab Lematang Ilir Regency, South Sumatra
12. Case Number 70 PHPU Rokan Hulu Regency, Riau
13. Case Number 86 PHPU Mandailing Natal Regency, North Sumatra
14. Case Number 93 PHPU Indragiri Hulu Regency, Riau
15. Case Number 130 PHPU Jambi Province
16. Case Number 21 PHPU Banjarmasin City, South Kalimantan