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The Constitutional Court rejected in its entirety the legal challenge

by losing presidential candidate to the 17 April presidential election result,

The result saw Widodo named the winner.  

“The court rejects all of the plaintiffs’ claims,”

Chief Justice Usman stated

after the panel of nine justices had spent almost eight hours reading out their ruling.

Anwar added that

the decision was final and that

the decision had been unanimously signed by all justices on the panel.

The court’s decision upholds the (KPU) final vote tally, (menjunjung)

which declared incumbent Jokowi and running mate Ma’ruf Amin the winners of the election.

The justices ruled that

the plaintiffs had failed to present valid evidence

to back up their allegations of widespread voter fraud

and had failed to elaborate clearly

how the alleged vote-rigging attempts were related to the vote tally secured by each presidential candidate.

In its lawsuit, the Prabowo-Sandiaga Uno ticket had claimed that

the 2019 presidential election was marred by “structured, systematic and massive” fraud (dirusak)

as the camp alleged that the KPU had inflated Jokowi-Ma’ruf’s vote tally by some 22 million votes.

Jokowi-Ma’ruf won April’s presidential race gaining 55.5 percent of the vote against Prabowo-Sandiaga’s 44.5 percent.

The plaintiffs submitted their lawsuit on May 24, however,

their legal team read out the revised version of its lawsuit dossier

during the first hearing on June 14.

The team alleged that

there had been 17.5 million problematic voters with invalid ID cards on the final voters list (DPT).

In its lawsuit, they asked the court to declare Prabowo and Sandiaga the election winners,

claiming that according to the ticket’s own tally data

the former Army general had won the race with 52 percent of the vote against Jokowi’s 48 percent.

The Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit by the campaign team of losing presidential candidate
against the (Bawaslu) ruling on alleged election campaign violations.
The team of justices presided by justice Supandi argued that 


the plaintiffs – did not have proper legal standing in the case.

“Moreover, the ruling in question did not meet the criteria to be the object of a general election administerial dispute,”

the bench argued, as stipulated in a copy of the verdict.

The plaintiffs had filed the lawsuit with the Supreme Court on June 12
to challenge Bawaslu’s ruling on their report alleging “structured, systematic and massive campaign violations” by the Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and Ma’ruf Amin ticket.

The agency declined to follow up on the report in May, citing a lack of evidence.
Bawasu’s reluctance to follow up the report violated the law;

therefore, they requested the Supreme Court annul the ruling.
Apart from rejecting that request,
the bench ordered the plaintiffs to pay an administration fee for the lawsuit amounting to Rp 1 million (US$71).
The Supreme Court ruling was issued on Wednesday,

a day prior to the expected Constitutional Court’s ruling
on the presidential election dispute.