PPP Kubu Submits Thousands Of Evidence Of The Loss Of Voice Letters In Central Papua And Papua Mountains To The Constitutional Court

PPP Erfandi spoke with the media crew at the Constitutional Court Building, Jakarta, Tuesday (14/5/2024). ANTARA/Nadia Putri Rahmani

JAKARTA - PPP Legal Team Chairman Erfandi said his party had submitted strong evidence regarding the loss of PPP votes in Central Papua and Papua Mountains to the Constitutional Court (MK).

"We have included thousands of pieces of evidence. The evidence we have submitted exceeds the respondent and related parties," he said when met at the Constitutional Court Building, Jakarta, Tuesday, May 14, was confiscated by Antara.

The evidence is to strengthen the argument for the party's application bearing the Kaaba symbol regarding the loss of PPP votes, namely around 190 thousand votes in Central Papua and 78 thousand votes in Papua Mountains.

He claimed to have lost the vote because there were irresponsible persons who changed the PPP vote to another party.

"The Central Papua and Papua Mountains use a noken system. It turns out that when there is a recapitulation of votes, there are people who then change the votes of PPP to other parties," he said.

He hopes that the Constitutional Court panel of judges can really consider the thousands of evidence they submitted and that the case submitted can continue to the next stage.

"With the hope that this evidence will be considered later in the trial, so that in the dismissal trial, we are accepted into the next stage, namely the evidentiary process," he said.

On the same occasion, the chairman of the PPP Yahukimo DPC, Papua Mountains, Okto Kambue, said that their voices in the Papuan electoral district of the Mountains disappeared during the recapitulation stage of votes at the PPD and KPU levels.

According to him, there are people behind the loss of their voices in the noken system used in elections in the region.

"In Papua this Mountains, every election always gets a seat. It means that there is public trust in PPP, so it is impossible for our voices to just disappear. It can't be like that," he said.

He also came directly to the Constitutional Court in Jakarta to express his hope that the missing voices could return.

"We ask the Supreme Court Judge to decide as fairly as possible. Now we come and we convey it to the Constitutional Court. We hope that the Constitutional Court considers it as best as possible so that our missing voices will be returned immediately," he said.

PPP filed a lawsuit with the Constitutional Court with Case Number 130-01-17-37/PHPU.DPR-DPRD-XXII/2024. Valid as the respondent party is the KPU.

The Coordinator for Legal Counseling for Central Papua and Papua, Akhmad Leksana Mountains, said that there were three demands made by PPP.

First, PPP asked for the conversion of their 3.87 percent votes to be declared the same as four percent. Second, it asked for the return of the votes that were claimed to be missing.

"Thirdly, we ask if it can't be done, then or is the last, asking for a re-voting or recounting vote. That's what we might be able to do," he said.