Dwiarso Santiarto Elected As Deputy Chair Of The Supreme Court For Non-Judicial Affairs

Screenshot - Deputy Chief Justice of the Supreme Court for Non-Judicial Affairs elected Dwiarso Budi Santiarto/ANTARA/Fath Putra Mulya

JAKARTA - Supreme Court Justice Dwiarso Budi Santiarto was elected Deputy Chief Justice of the Supreme Court for Non-Judicial Affairs after obtaining the most votes in the two-round election at the Special Plenary Session at the Supreme Court Building, Jakarta, today.

The young chairman of the Supreme Court's Supervision received 25 votes in the second round of voting. He outperformed two other candidates, namely Supreme Court Justice Hamdi who received four votes and Supreme Court Justice Haryadi with nine votes.

"Based on the minutes of the vote count, it turns out that His Majesty Dwiarso Budi Santiarto has received 25 votes. Thus, His Majesty Dwiarso Budi Santiarto has been appointed as Deputy Chair of the Supreme Court for Non-Judicial Election," said Chairman of the Supreme Court Sunarto as chairman of the trial, quoted from Antara.

The Special Plenary Session with the agenda of the Election of the Deputy Chairperson of the Supreme Court for Non-Judicial Affairs was attended by 39 out of a total of 41 Supreme Court justices. The other two Supreme Court justices were unable to attend.

Of the total Supreme Court justices present, five of them stated that they were willing to be nominated as Deputy Chair of the Supreme Court for Non-Judicial Affairs, namely Supreme Court Justice Dwiarso Budi Santiarto, Hamdi, Haswandi, Prim Haryadi, and Yasardin.

The chairman of the Supreme Court explained that referring to the provisions of Article 9 paragraph (2) of the Order of the Election of the Deputy Chairperson of the Supreme Court for Non-Judicial Affairs, if no candidate gets more than 50 percent of the votes, the candidate who gets the most votes is in first place and the second continues to participate in the second round election.

In the first round, Dwiarso Budi Santiarto won with 17 votes, following Hamdi and Prim Haryadi who each received six votes. Meanwhile, Haswandi and Yasardin received four votes, while the other two votes were invalid.

Based on the results of the vote count for the first round, the candidates who met the provisions for the second round were Dwiarso Budi Santiarto, Hamdi, and Prim Haryadi. The plenary session was suspended for 10 minutes to prepare for the second round of elections.

After calculating the votes for the second round, Dwiarso remained superior to the other candidates, namely with 25 votes. Meanwhile, Hamdi received four votes and Prim Haryadi received nine votes, while the other one was invalid.