The Court's Decision Is Called To Agree To Closed Proportional Elections, National Police Chief: If There Is A Crime, We Will Take Further Steps

National Police Chief General Listyo Sigit Prabowo. (Rizky A-VOI)

JAKARTA - National Police Chief General Listyo Sigit Prabowo said that his party was reviewing the steps that would be taken as a follow-up to the alleged leak of the Constitutional Court (MK) decision regarding the Legislative Election (Pileg) system being returned to a closed proportional system.

The study was carried out after the Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Mahfud MD asked the police to immediately investigate allegations of information leakage that attracted the attention of many parties among the political elite and government officials.

"In accordance with his direction (Menko Polhukam) to carry out investigative steps, to make light of the events that occurred, of course we are currently closing in for steps that we can take to make everything clear," said Sigit at the Westin Hotel. Jakarta, Monday, May 29.

Although currently still in the assessment stage, Sigit emphasized that the legal process will be carried out if criminal elements are found. Of course in accordance with applicable regulations.

"If then there is a criminal incident in it, of course we will take further steps," said Sigit

Previously, former Deputy Minister of Law and Human Rights (Wamenkumham) Denny Indrayana claimed to have received information about the Constitutional Court's decision regarding the legislative election system which will return to a closed proportional system or party voting.

"This morning I received important information. The Constitutional Court will decide on the legislative election to return to a closed proportional system, again choosing a party image mark," Denny said via a tweet on his Twitter account @dennyindranaya, Sunday.

In his tweet, Denny also mentioned the source in the Constitutional Court. Although Denny did not clearly answer, he confirmed that the source was not a constitutional judge.

"Who is the source? The person I really trust is credibility, who is definitely not a Constitutional Judge," he said.

"So, we are returning to the New Order election system: authoritarian and corrupt," Denny said in his tweet.