Keberatan, Kubu Ganjar-Anies Nilai Banyak Ahli Dari Prabowo Tak Independen Hingga Sempat Jadi Tersangka KPK

Court Trial (Diah Ayu/VOI)

JAKARTA - The legal team of Ganjar-Mahfud and Anies-Muhaimin expressed objections to a number of experts brought by the Prabowo-Gibran team to the trial for the 2024 presidential election dispute at the Constitutional Court (MK) today.

The two camps are concerned that there will be a conflict of interest from the expert presentation with Prabowo-Gibran because they are considered not independent until they have served as KPK suspects.

Starting with a member of the Ganjar-Mahfud legal team, Maqdir Ismail expressed his objection to one of the experts, Andi Muhammad Arsun. Maqdir admitted that he had previously handled preparations for the 2024 presidential election dispute in his own team.

"We heard that one of the experts presented was Prof. Andi Muhammad Arsun. This expert, as soon as we started preparing everything related to the request to the Constitutional Court, he was still the director of the presidential election for 03," said Maqdir at the Constitutional Court building, Thursday, April 4.

Maqdir admitted that he was worried that Arsun would be involved in a conflict of interest because he had known about the preparations and strategies of the Ganjar-Mahfud team in the previous Constitutional Court.

"It is true that he resigned. But the initial preparations to prepare for this, he was involved," said Maqdir.

Responding to this, Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court Suhartoyo said he would record the objection.

"Later, your objection will be recorded. Later, the information presented will actually be assessed by the Court. However, we will consider the objection," said Suhartoyo.

Then, the head of the Ganjar-Mahfud legal team, Todyn Mulya Lubis also expressed his objection to the expert Muhammad Qodari because he was involved in activities that supported Prabowo-Gibran, and voiced the extension of President Jokowi's term of office for 3 terms.

"This interferes with the independence of the person concerned," said Todung.

Then, a member of Anies-Muhaimin's legal team, Refly Harun also objected to two experts, namely Margarito Thursday and Hasan Hasbi. Refli considers both of them to be part of Prabowo's supporters.

Suhartoyo again replied that the objections raised by Todung and Refly would be recorded as considerations for the panel of judges.

Furthermore, a member of Anies-Muhaimin's legal team, Bambang Widjojanto, protested with expert Edward Omar Sharif Hiariej. The former Deputy Minister of Law and Human Rights is known to have served as a KPK suspect, before finally the status died because Eddy won pretrial.

Bambang assessed that Eddy did not deserve to be an expert in the Constitutional Court trial. "The relevance is someone who is a suspect, especially in corruption cases. In order to respect this court, he should be released as an expert," said Bambang.

"Yes, the panel will consider it later," Suhartoyo replied.

The Constitutional Court again held a follow-up hearing in the dispute over General Election Results (PHPU) case with the agenda of examining witnesses and experts from the Prabowo-Gibran camp who are related parties, today.

At the trial, the Prabowo-Gibran legal team presented 8 experts, one of whom was former Deputy Minister of Law and Human Rights Edward Omar Sharif Hiariej or Eddy Hiariej.

More specifically, the experts who were declared by the Prabowo-Gibran camp included Professor of Constitutional Science at Pakuan University, Andi muhammad Asrun; Law expert, Abdul Khair Ramadhan; Professor of the Faculty of Law, Hasanuddin University, Aminuddin Ilmar; and constitutional law expert Margarito Thursday

Then, the Dean of the Faculty of Management of the IPDN Government, Khalil khairi; Professor of Criminal Law at Gadjah Mada University and former Deputy Minister of Law and Human Rights, Edward Omar Sharif Hiariej, Founder of the Cyrus Network survey institute, Hasan Hasbi; and Executive Director of Indo Baroemeter, Muhammad Qodari.

As for the witnesses, there were six people presented, Chairman of Commission II of the House of Representatives Ahmad Doli Kurnia; Deputy Chairman of Commission VIII of the House of Representatives Ace Hasan Syadzily; Gani Muhammad; Andi Bataralifu; Tanjung Suprianto; and Abdul Wahid.