Central Jakarta District Court Orders Postponed 2024 Election Due To Prima Party Lawsuit, KPU: We Are Appealing

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JAKARTA - The Central Jakarta District Court (PN) ordered the General Election (Pemilu) to be postponed for about 2 years or until 2025. This is a decision that won the civil lawsuit filed by the Adil Makmur People's Party (Prima). Responding to this, the Chairman of the Indonesian General Elections Commission (KPU) Hasyim Asy'ari will file an appeal as a legal follow-up to the decision, along with the ongoing 2024 General Election. "The KPU will appeal legal remedies," said Hasyim in a short message, Thursday, March 2. Initially, the Prima Party sued the KPU to the Central Jakarta District Court because it felt aggrieved by the election organizers. This is because the KPU stated that the Prima Party did not meet the requirements in undergoing registration and verification of political parties that would participate in the 2024 General Election. As a result, the Prima Party could not continue the election stages to factual verification. The Prima Party did not accept it. In their study, Prima said that the KPU was not careful in carrying out administrative verification. Prima also views the Political Party Information System (Sipol) as problematic and causes the party to fail in the administrative verification stage. Prima's civil lawsuit to the Central Jakarta District Court with the defendant, namely the Indonesian KPU, was filed on December 8. Central Jakarta District Court's decision came out with case number 757/Pdt.G/2022/PN Jkt.Pst on Thursday, March 2. The following is the sound of the Central Jakarta District Court's decision: 1. Accept the plaintiff's claim in its entirety; 2. State that the Plaintiff is a political party that is harmed in administrative verification by the defendant; 3. State that the defendant has committed an act against the law; 4. Sentencing the defendant to pay material compensation of Rp500,000,000 to the Plaintiff; 5. Sentencing the defendant not to carry out the remaining stages of the 2024 General Election since this decision was pronounced and carried out the stages of general elections from the start for approximately 2 years 4 months 7 days; 6. State that the decision of this case can be carried out immediately (uitvoerbaar bij voorraad); 7. Establishing the court fee charged to the defendant in the amount of Rp. 40,000.