PHPU 2024 Legislative Election: Inflating and Reducing Votes Most Concerned

The Association for Elections and Democracy (Perludem) released the results of monitoring applications for election results disputes (PHPU) in the 2024 Legislative Election. Based on the results of the Plusdem findings, there were 263 applications, while data from the Constitutional Court (MK) was 285. Vote inflation and subtraction were the most problematic in the PHPU Pileg 2024.

“This difference in data is due to the difficulty of data collection because the Constitutional Court website related to petition cases always changes the structure of case numbers,” said the Perludem researcher, Kahfi Adlan Hadiz, in a discussion entitled “‘Launching of Results of Monitoring Disputes on Legislative Election Results at the Constitutional Court” in Cikini, Central Jakarta (5/20).

Apart from that, based on the classification of the proposed arguments, of the 457 proposed, vote inflation and vote reduction occupy the largest number, with 106 arguments, followed by the vote inflation argument with 95 arguments and vote reduction with 95 arguments. Meanwhile, there are 101 categories of arguments for TSM violations, procedures, and procedures, and the remaining arguments are related to election organizing institutions, voter data, election systems, and other violations.

On April 23, the Constitutional Court registered 297 PHPU cases for members of the DPR, DPRD, and DPD. Of the 297 cases, there are 285 DPR/DPRD cases, while the remaining 12 are DPD cases. A total of 171 cases, or 60% of legislative election PHPU cases, were filed by political parties on behalf of the party chairman or secretary general of the party’s DPP. Meanwhile, cases filed on behalf of individuals were 114, or 40% of cases.

“Of the 114 cases filed by individuals, 74 were Regency/City DPRD PHPU cases, 28 were Provincial DPRD PHPU cases, and 12 cases were for the Indonesian DPR,” explained Kahfi.

Furthermore, Kahfi explained that based on the serial number, 140 cases could be identified, while the remaining 145 cases were not identified. He said the most cases were filed by applicants with small serial number candidates, and the most cases were filed by applicants with legislative candidate number 2, totaling 49 cases.

“39 cases were filed by the applicant with candidate number 1, and the remaining 14 cases were filed by the applicant with candidate number 3,” he explained.

Meanwhile, the level of election organizers with the most questions in the PHPU legislative elections was the Regency/City KPU with 188 issues, the Provincial KPU with 100 issues, and the RI KPU with 62 issues out of 50 DPR RI cases and 12 DPD cases. Currently, the PHPU legislative election is still ongoing at the Constitutional Court and is targeted to decide all cases on June 10. []