Amicus Curiae Megawati At The Constitutional Court, Anies: This Shows The State's Situation Is Very Serious

Presidential Candidate Anies Baswedan (Diah Ayu/VOI)

JAKARTA - Anies Baswedan responded to Megawati Soekarnoputri's proposal to become an amicus for theft to the Constitutional Court (MK) at the 2024 presidential election dispute trial.

Amicus stole is defined as a court friend who helps the court by offering information, expertise, or insight related to the issues in the case.

According to Anies, if a character like Megawati has paid attention to becoming an amicuscuree, this shows that the democratic system in Indonesia is facing serious problems.

"This illustrates that the situation is very serious. As we said at the opening of the trial at the Constitutional Court, that this is Indonesia at a crossroads," Anies was quoted as saying on Wednesday, April 17.

Anies admitted that he was worried that Indonesia would return to an era where the practice of democracy became a mere ceremonial after the 2024 presidential election. This, according to him, happened because the process had been designed from the start by the rulers.

This kind of concern, continued Anies, Megawati has felt. "Well, this is a crossroads," said Anies.

"I think the message from Mrs. Mega as one of the people who participated in the democratization process since the 90s. She felt that when everything was regulated, where there was no need for a surveyor at that time because everyone knew the results before the election process at that time," he added.

PDI-P General Chair Megawati Sukarnoputri volunteered as an amicuscuree or a court friend in the 2024 Presidential Election Result Dispute (PHPU) case at the Constitutional Court (MK).

Megawati through PDIP Secretary General Hasto Kristiyanto and PDIP DPP Chair Djarot Saiful Hidayat submitted amicus theft documents to the Constitutional Court, Tuesday, April 16.

"All the considerations conveyed by Megawati's mother as an amicus stealee and then closed with handwriting," said Hasto to reporters at the Constitutional Court, Jakarta.

After submitting the document, Hasto read out a little of Megawati's legal opinion as stated in the amicus theft, which reads:

"My beloved Indonesian people, let us pray that the hammer of the constitutional court is not a hammer, but a golden hammer. As said Kartini's mother in 1911: 'After the darkness come out light' so that the dawn of democracy that we have fought for has always emerged again and will be remembered continuously by the generations of the Indonesian nation."