KPU Officially Appeals Central Jakarta District Court Decision On Postponing 2024 Election Stages

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The General Election Commission (KPU) has officially filed an appeal against the decision of the Central Jakarta District Court (PN Jakpus) which ordered the KPU to stop the stages of implementing the 2024 General Election and start from scratch.

The appeal was filed by the KPU, represented by the Head of the Advocacy and Dispute Settlement Bureau Andi Krisna, by submitting an appeal memory to the Central Jakarta District Court.

"Today, the KPU has submitted an appeal memory at the Central Jakarta District Court and we have submitted the documents earlier. We have also received the deed of appeal so that the KPU has submitted the entire process or substance of the appeal documents," said Andi Krisna to reporters at the Central Jakarta District Court, Friday, March 10, quoted by Antara.

He then submitted the appeal to prove that the implementation of the 2024 General Election was still ongoing.

"The election is still running, as stated by the KPU leadership, colleagues must have known about it. So, the process and stages are running as PKPU Number 3 of 2022 (regarding the Stages and Schedules for the 2024 General Elections) that have been set by the KPU," he said.

Previously, at the trial at the Central Jakarta District Court, Thursday (2/3), the panel of judges granted the Prima Party's lawsuit against the KPU not to carry out the remaining stages of the 2024 General Election and carry out the election stages from the start for approximately 2 years 4 months 7 days.

"Punishing the defendant (KPU) not to carry out the remaining stages of the 2024 General Election since this decision was pronounced and carrying out the general election stages from the beginning for approximately 2 years 4 months 7 days," said the panel of judges chaired by Oyong, quoted from decision Number 757 / Pdt.G / 2022 / PN Jkt.Pst.

In their consideration, the panel of judges ordered the KPU not to continue the remaining stages of the 2024 General Election in order to restore and create a fair situation and protect so that as early as possible other incidents due to mistakes, inaccuracies, inaccuracies, unprofessionalism, unprofessionalism, and injustice committed by the KPU as the defendant.

In addition, the panel of judges also stated that legal facts had proven that there was a condition of error in the Political Party Information System (Sipol) caused by the quality factor of the tools used or factors outside the infrastructure.

This happened when the Prima Party had difficulty conveying the improvement of data on political party participants into Sipol who had an error in the system. Without tolerance for what happened, the KPU determined that the status of the Prima Party did not meet the requirements (TMS) as a political party participating in the 2024 General Election.