Not Asking To Postpone The 2024 Election, The Prima Party Only Sues The Election Stage Process Starting From The Beginning

Pertemuan pers Partai Prima di Jakarta (Foto: Nailin In Saroh/VOI)

JAKARTA - The People's Fair and Prosperous Party (Prima) has clarified the decision of the Central Jakarta District Court (PN) which ordered the General Election (Pemilu) to be postponed for about 2 years or until 2025. The chairman of the Prima Party, Agus Jabo Priyono, explained that his party did not really want the 2024 election to be postponed. Instead, he sued for the process of the election stages carried out by the Indonesian KPU starting from scratch again. "From the start, we asked that the election process be temporarily suspended, the election process, that's it," Agus said during a press conference in Jakarta, Friday, March 3. Initially, Agus revealed that the legal action filed by the Prima Party had started on December 14, 2022. At that time, his party tried to report the election issue to the Administrative Court and Bawaslu but was rejected. "So, after the KPU announced the election participants on December 14, 2022, where then Prima was not included in the election participating party, we made legal efforts so that what was our right was returned," explained Agus. "But because of the legal process that we carried out in the Administrative Court, in Bawaslu it collapsed, and we were not listed as election participants," he continued. In addition to expecting the election process to be temporarily suspended, Agus also admitted that he had asked the KPU to be audited. Because Prima assessed that the Political Party Information System (Sipol) was problematic and caused his party not to pass the administrative verification stage. "Previously, we politically carried out political movements asking that the KPU be audited so that the problem was clear, in court we stated that the process and stages of the election would begin again," he explained. The reason the Prima Party asked that the election process start from the start again is because the KPU has committed an unlawful act. "Why? Because the KPU as the election organizer has been proven to have violated the law. And now my friends also know that the DKPP (KPU) is undergoing a court process where the election organizers are being tried at the DKPP," said Agus. "If then the election process, which is full of fraud, it will continue to endanger the lives of the nation and state after the election is held," he added. Therefore, Agus reiterated that his party did not demand to postpone the 2024 election but only the stage process was to start again from scratch. "So what we demand is not to postpone the election but the process starts from scratch again, the process is stopped and starts from scratch again," he concluded. Previously, the Central Jakarta District Court (PN) ordered the General Election (Pemilu) to be postponed for about 2 years or until 2025. This is a decision that won the civil lawsuit filed by the People's Fair and Prosperous Party (Prima). Initially, the Prima Party sued the KPU to the Central Jakarta District Court because it felt aggrieved by the election organizers. This is because the KPU stated that the Prima Party did not meet the requirements in undergoing registration and verification of political parties that would participate in the 2024 General Election. As a result, the Prima Party could not continue the election stages to factual verification. The Prima Party did not accept it. In their study, Prima said that the KPU was not careful in carrying out administrative verification. Prima also views the Political Party Information System (Sipol) as problematic and causes the party to fail in the administrative verification stage. Prima's civil lawsuit to the Central Jakarta District Court with the defendant, namely the Indonesian KPU, was filed on December 8. Central Jakarta District Court's decision came out with case number 757/Pdt.G/2022/PN Jkt.Pst on Thursday, March 2. The following is the sound of the Central Jakarta District Court's decision: 1. Accept the plaintiff's claim in its entirety; 2. State that the Plaintiff is a political party that is harmed in administrative verification by the defendant; 3. State that the defendant has committed an act against the law; 4. Sentencing the defendant to pay material compensation of Rp500,000,000 to the Plaintiff; 5. Sentencing the defendant not to carry out the remaining stages of the 2024 General Election since this decision was pronounced and carried out the stages of general elections from the start for approximately 2 years 4 months 7 days; 6. State that the decision of this case can be carried out immediately (uitvoerbaar bij voorraad); 7. Establishing the court fee charged to the defendant in the amount of Rp. 40,000.