Members Of The Indonesian KPU Legal Division Gathered For 3 Days, Discuss The Preparation Of The Constitutional Court Lawsuit

Chairman of the Indonesian KPU Hasyim Asy'ari when determining the results of the 2024 General Election at the Indonesian KPU Building, Jakarta, Wednesday (20/3/2024). (ANTARA/Rio Feisal)

Chairman of the Indonesian General Elections Commission (KPU) Hasyim Asy'ari said his party had gathered regional KPU members throughout Indonesia for the next three days until Tuesday, March 26, to face a dispute over general election results (PHPU) processed at the Constitutional Court (MK). The ranks of the KPU's legal division throughout Indonesia will consolidate to prepare strategies, answers, and evidence to answer all lawsuits for the 2024 election dispute, both related to the presidential election, the legislative election of the DPR, DPRD, and DPD. "Tonight, Sunday, March 24, 2024, this evening the KPU gathered, provincial and district/city KPU and all of Indonesia to prepare, trials in the dispute over election results at the Constitutional Court," said Hayim at the KPU RI office, Central Jakarta, Sunday, March 24. Based on the registration of the applicant's application application (AP3) as of 19.00 WIB, there have been 273 election dispute cases registered with the Constitutional Court. The details are 2 submissions for the 2024 presidential election lawsuit by the presidential and vice presidential candidate pair number 1 Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar and presidential and vice presidential candidates number 3 Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud MD, 259 applications for the DPR and DPRD Legislative Elections, as well as 12 applications for the DPD Legislative Election. The dispute over election results registered in the 2024 General Election has decreased when compared to the 2019 Election PHPU case application, which was 340 cases in the 2019 General Election. Furthermore, Hasyim revealed that his party had also begun to prepare a number of advocates to become attorneys for the KPU as the respondent during the lawsuit process at the Constitutional Court. However, the KPU has not yet determined who the advocates will cooperate with. What is clear is that the working pattern of the KPU attorney is similar to the 2019 election dispute lawsuit.

"Based on the 2019 Election, that is what we use to distribute for the DPRD elections and DPD is a party. Later there will be a team that handles what party. Later, the dispute will be the DPR RI election, the provincial DPRD election, the district/city DPRD elections. So, the distribution will make it easier if the cluster is per party," explained Hasyim.