Yusril Ihza Mahendra Once Called The Constitutional Court A Court Of Calculators

Constitutional Law Expert, Yusril Ihza Mahendra. (Between)

JAKARTA - Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa refused to give up with the results of the 2014 presidential election. Both of them feel that they have not lost to the Joko Widodo (Jokowi)-Jusuf Kalla (JK) pair. The presence of allegations of systematic and massive fraud is the estuary.

The option of filing an election dispute with the Constitutional Court (MK) was chosen. A classy name is prepared to be an expert witness. Yusril Ihza Mahendra, for example. The Constitutional Law expert asked the Constitutional Court to act in harmony with constitutional values. The Constitutional Court should not be a Kalculator Court. What term is that?

Many predict that the 2014 presidential election democratic party will take place with a commotion. Strong parties are starting to look for their respective candidates. The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) has made a choice for Jokowi-JK.

Other candidates emerged from the Greater Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) carrying Prabowo-Hatta. Both candidates began to campaign around Indonesia. Right political promises to begin to be prepared.

Jokowi carries the Mental Revolution. Prabowo carries the White Revolution which focuses on the nation's development of a strong healthy nation's character. The poitile machines of the supporting party are also optimized.

Everything is done to reach many voices. Buying and selling programs was carried out. Moreover, in the presidential and vice-presidential debate. The pinnacle of being loved by scholars arrived. Voting day arrived on July 9, 2014. All Indonesians then flocked to the TPS to elect the President and Vice President of Indonesia for the 2014-2019 term of service.

In accordance with Indonesia, it has made its choice. The survey institute began to work to release its quick count results. Jokowi-JK was asked to win. Prabowo-Hatta is furious. They don't want to admit the quick count results.

The only result they are waiting for is the official vote count results from the General Elections Commission (KPU) on July 22, 2014. The results that came out actually confirmed the results of the quick count. Jokowi is 53.15 percent ahead, while Prabowo only gets 46.85 percent. Prabowo's camp did not accept it and filed an election dispute with the Constitutional Court.

Prabowo should have focused on legal steps. He needed extra personnel to prove accusations against the KPU, which he always repeated like a mantra: there has been massive, systematic, and structured fraud in the 2014 presidential election.

The claim of bringing in ten trucks of evidence, deploying 2,000 lawyers. They want to bring thousands of witnesses to the Constitutional Court, as well as deploying 30 thousand supporters may be important to him to convince the constituents," wrote Tempo magazine report entitled Guard of the Violenceless Session (2014).

The Prabowo-Hatta camp considers the vote count made to injure democracy. The KPU is believed to have committed fraud. A fraud that made Prabowo-Hatta lose up to 8.4 million votes.

The drums of war against the KPU were sounded. The prabowo camp filed a dispute between the KPU and the Election participants (PHPU) of the President and Vice President to the Constitutional Court. The expert witnesses who were involved. Yusril Ihza Mahendra, one of them.

The Constitutional Law expert actually warned the Constitutional Court first. He asked the Constitutional Court not to become a Calculator Court. This view is because the Constitutional Court considers it often simplifies the problem so it's just a matter of counting votes.

Yusril wanted the Constitutional Court to act by seeing the overall KPU's fraud. The Constitutional Court must examine the KPU's fraud regarding data manipulation of Fixed Voters Data (DPT), money practices, missing voices, and suspicions related to the Additional Special Voters List (DPKTb). However, far from being burned.

The Constitutional Court rejected all PHPU requests related to the President and Vice President submitted by the Prabowo-Hatta pair. This condition makes the Constitutional Court closely related to the term Kalculator Court.

Everything is because the Constitutional Court's methods to address the election dispute are only looking at the issue of numbers. The Constitutional Court in the corridor is only the calculator of the KPU, nothing more.

So, it's not just a matter of dispute over numbers. The substantial issue in the election is actually related to the constitutionality and legality of the implementation of the election itself.

"Without it, whoever the president and vice president are elected will face a legitimacy crisis that will result in instability in this country. It is better if the PHPU examination of the president and vice president is the Court stepping in that direction," said Yusril in testimony at the Constitutional Court building as quoted on the Online Law page, August 15, 2014.