PDIP Asks For PSI And Democrats' Votes In Central Papua To Be Eliminated

Screenshot - PDI Perjuangan (PDIP) attorney Wiradarma Harefa (right) read out the petitum at the 2024 PHPU Pilleg trial which was monitored online in Jakarta, Monday (29/4/2024). ANTARA/Nadia Putri Rahmani

PDI-P attorney Wiradarma Harefa asked the Constitutional Court to change the votes of the Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI) and the Democratic Party to zero in the results of the 2024 election for the election of members of the Central Papua Provincial DPRD. Wiradarma conveyed this at the preliminary examination hearing for the 2024 Pilleg General Election Result Dispute (PHPU) case which was held at the Constitutional Court Building, Jakarta, Monday, with the General Election Commission (KPU) as the respondent. "Stipulates PSI's vote acquisition for the zero District/District Result D form, zero Provincial Result D vote acquisition," said Wiradarma when reading the petition petitum as reported by Antara, Monday, April 29. The same demand was aimed at obtaining votes from the Democratic Party because it was found that PSI and the Democratic Party had allegedly reduced votes. PDIP also asked the KPU to determine that their votes in the Electoral Area (Dapil) of Central Papua 5 on the D Result form of District/District Results became 36,753 votes and on the D form Provincial Results received 36,753 votes. In addition, PDIP asked the Constitutional Court to cancel KPU Decree Number 360 of 2024 concerning the determination of Provincial and Regency/City DPRD members for the election of members of the Central Papua Provincial DPRD for Electoral District 5 (Mimaka Regency), the Puncak Regency DPRD for Electoral Districts 2, 3, and 4, as well as the Central Papua Provincial DPRD for Electoral Districts 3 Puncak Regency. Constitutional Justice Guntur Hamzah stated that the application submitted by PDIP lacked evidence to support their demands. "You asked PSI's voice in the Central Papua 5 electoral district to be zeroed. I'm looking for supporting evidence because according to you, this uses a connector noken system. Well, I don't see any evidence for that," said Guntur. The constitutional judge also asked the PDIP's attorney to show the evidence requested so that it could be asked of the respondent, related parties, and also Bawaslu. The chairman of the trial held at the third panel, Arief Hidayat, also emphasized that PDIP as the applicant should have completed additional evidence. "If the applicant's evidence is not submitted in the preliminary trial, it will be the judge's assessment in the verdict trial. For what reason? Therefore, it cannot be verified and cannot be responded to by the relevant parties and the respondent or Bawaslu," he said.

In the application with Number 04-01-03-36/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXIII/2024, PDIP questioned the difference in votes between D-Hasil District/District and D-Hasil Regency down to the Provincial D-Hasil level and National D-Hasil. PDIP also questioned the reduction in vote acquisition in the election results through the noken system. The difference in vote acquisition that should have been obtained by PDIP in the Central Papua electoral district was 2,776 votes.