TPN Please Issue Fatwa Can Choose To Use Population Documents

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JAKARTA - The National Winning Team (TPN) Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud Md asked the Supreme Court (MA) to be able to issue a fatwa so that residents who are not included in the Permanent Voter List (DPT) are allowed to vote by showing population documents on voting day, February 14, 2024.

TPN Deputy for Law Ganjar-Mahfud, Todung Mulya Lubis said that the request to the Supreme Court was made because he assessed that the 30-day deadline for residents to be registered on the additional voter list before voting, and 7 days for residents who are sick, affected by disasters, and prisoners, was considered to have the potential to eliminate citizen voting rights.

"The big question is whether these citizens cannot exercise their voting rights just because they do not ask to move to vote 7 days before the day of the election?" said Todung in a statement received in Jakarta, Thursday.

According to Todung, a fatwa from the Supreme Court to be able to choose by using population documents can help citizens who cannot exercise their voting rights in their domicile or polling stations (TPS) as long as they have jobs in other cities that cannot be abandoned.

In addition, he continued, it can help citizens who do not have the money to return to their regions according to their domicile, or stay temporarily or temporarily abroad and are not registered with the DPT.

Todung also said that the provisions of the time limit could violate the constitutional rights of citizens in the election, as mandated by Article 6A paragraph (1) of the 1945 Constitution which regulates the President and Vice President to be elected directly by the people.

Then, he continued, Article 22E paragraph (2) of the 1945 Constitution which regulates general elections to be held to elect members of the House of Representatives (DPR), the Regional Representative Council (DPD), the President and Vice President and the Regional House of Representatives (DPRD).

Todung said that the time limit provisions could also violate the human rights of citizens as stipulated in Article 43 paragraph (1) and (2) of Law Number 39 of 1999 concerning Human Rights.

The article reads, "every citizen has the right to be elected and vote in general elections based on equal rights through direct, public, free, secret, honest, and fair voting in accordance with the provisions of the legislation."

"Every citizen has the right to participate in the government directly or by intermediary of representatives he chooses freely according to the methods stipulated in the laws and regulations," Todung added.

Based on the information received, TPN Ganjar-Mahfud submitted the fatwa application to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Muhammad Syarifuddin, on Thursday (7/2).

Previously, the General Election Commission (KPU) of the Republic of Indonesia had determined the participants in the 2024 presidential election, namely the Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar pair number 1, Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming Raka number 2, and Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud Md. serial number 3.

The KPU has also set a campaign period from November 28, 2023 to February 10, 2024, a period of calm on February 11'13, and the D-Day of the vote on February 14, 2024.