JAKARTA - Candidate pair for governor and deputy governor of Southwest Papua Number 1 Abdul Faris Umlati and Petrus Kasihiw asked the Constitutional Court (MK) to order a revote (PSU) for the 2024 Southwest Papua Pilkada at 553 polling stations (TPS).

The details of the 553 TPS include, among others, 154 TPS from 117 villages in 24 districts in Raja Ampat Regency, 330 TPS from 40 sub-districts in 10 districts in Sorong City, and 69 TPS from 14 sub-districts in Aimas District, Sorong Regency.

"Ordering the Respondent (KPU of Southwest Papua Province) to hold a PSU for the Election of Governor and Deputy Governor of Southwest Papua at the TPS," said one of Abdul-Petrus' attorneys, Kariadi, reading the petitum in the preliminary examination hearing of the regional election dispute at Building I of the Constitutional Court, Jakarta, Thursday, January 16, quoted by Antara.

Abdul-Petrus is a candidate pair that won 79,635 votes in the 2024 Papua Barat Daya Pilkada. Abdul-Petrus' vote acquisition was in second place, while the most votes were won by candidate pair number 3 Elisa Kambu and Ahmad Nausrau with 144,598 votes.

However, according to Abdul-Petrus, the vote acquisition results were tainted by the inclusion of votes from voters who were not entitled to vote because they did not have an electronic ID card, but were still facilitated to vote. The incident allegedly occurred at polling stations spread across Raja Ampat Regency, Sorong City, and Aimas District, Sorong Regency.

Abdul-Petrus also said that the validity of the Papua Barat Daya Pilkada vote acquisition results could not be accounted for. This is because the attendance list was not signed by voters, voters signed more than one name, and officers from the Voting Organizing Group (KPPS) allegedly signed the voter attendance list.

Furthermore, the candidate pair number 1 suspected that there were violations of election principles in the 2024 Papua Barat Daya Pilkada. The violations highlighted by Abdul-Petrus included candidate pair number 3 Elisa-Ahmad allegedly committing money politics by giving rewards or promises to prospective voters.

In front of the panel of judges at the 1st panel hearing led by Chief Justice Suhartoyo, Abdul-Petrus' party also showed a video of the abuse of power by the Elisa-Ahmad pair mobilizing village assistants, district heads, and ASN.

"This was in an event that was actually an official event, the Village Assistant Coordination Meeting throughout Papua Barat Daya Province, but at that event the banner of candidate pair number 3 was replaced. Then, there was a speech to support candidate pair number 3," said Heru Widodo, another attorney for Abdul-Petrus.

Also highlighted by Abdul-Petrus' camp, namely the controversial decision of the Papuan People's Assembly (MRP). Heru said that the MRP, which should function as a cultural institution to protect the rights of indigenous Papuans (OAP), instead issued a decision stating that Abdul and Petrus were not OAP.

"This decision creates major obstacles to the political rights of both of them which is contrary to the purpose of the MRP's existence, as regulated in Article 20 paragraph (1) of Law Number 21 of 2001 concerning Papuan Special Autonomy," said Heru.

Based on these arguments, Abdul-Petrus asked the Constitutional Court to cancel the decision of the West Papua Province KPU regarding the determination of the results of the local gubernatorial and deputy gubernatorial elections throughout 553 polling stations in Raja Ampat Regency, Sorong City, and Aimas District, Sorong Regency.

The applicant in case Number 276/PHPU.GUB-XXIII/2025 also requested that the Constitutional Court order the KPU of West Papua Province to hold a PSU at the TPSs in question, by first updating the voter data in the permanent voter list (DPT).


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