Bambang Widjojanto Calls Central Kalimantan Pilgub Fraud Is Massive, Sugianto Sabran Team: Only In Dream Land

Constitutional Court Building (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The legal team for the candidate pair for Governor/Deputy Governor of Central Kalimantan number 2 Sugianto Sabran - Edy Pratowo assessed that the request of the Ben Brahim S. Bahat - Ujang Iskandar team for the results of the Central Kalimantan governor election to be canceled by the Constitutional Court (MK) was just a dream.

"We take it easy (responding to the request of the Ben-Ujang Legal Team). We still believe (the request) is zero. Zero," said Rahmadi G. Lentam as one of the Sugianto-Edy Legal Team when quoted by Antara, Thursday, January 28.

According to him, the case for the Regional Election (Pilkada) in West Kotawaringin Regency in 2010, in which the Constitutional Court canceled the KPU decision and disqualified the winning candidate pair, had absolutely nothing to do with the 2020 Central Kalimantan Pilkada.

Rahmadi said that at the time of the 2010 Pilkada, there was no Article 158 of Law Number 8 of 2015 concerning Pilkada, which became the reference for the Constitutional Court in hearing Pilkada cases at this time.

"So, what they describe (Ben-Ujang's Legal Team related to the West Kotawaringin election in 2010) as if it's real, instead it is only in the realm of dreams. Not in the real world," he said.

Regarding the allegations by the Ben-Ujang Legal Team against the Sugianto-Edi candidate pair who committed fraud in a structured, systematic, and nasal manner, according to Rahmadi, it was no longer the domain of the Constitutional Court.

He said that currently the Constitutional Court was solely examining and adjudicating cases of dispute over the results of the Pilkada. This is because the basic authority of the constitution is the same as that given to the Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu), General Election Commission (KPU), and DKPP, including law enforcement officials incorporated in Gakkumdu.

He is optimistic that the Court will not take the authority of other parties. The Constitutional Court is bound by an oath of office, submits to and obeys the 1945 Constitution and all applicable laws in Indonesia, as long as the Constitutional Court has never declared null and void.

"So, the authority of the Constitutional Court which is derived from article 157 of the Pilkada Law, still refers to the absolute requirements in Article 158 regarding the threshold for vote acquisition," said Rahmadi.

The Sugianto-Edi Legal Team also believed that at the deliberation meeting held by the Constitutional Court on February 1-11, 2021, and February 15, 2021, there was a decision/stipulation of the regional election case, the lawsuit submitted by the Ben-Ujang Legal team had already made a decision.

"The various arguments presented by the Ben-Ujang Legal Team are actually very easy to refute. We have already obtained all of their pointers and will present them in court," said Rahmadi.