Prabowo Subianto seals victory as Indonesia's next leader after top court rejects rivals' appeals

(22 Apr 2024)
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Jakarta - 22 April 2024
1. Various of presidential candidate Ganjar Pranowo shaking hands with his team of legal advisors in the courtroom
2. Presidential candidate and Former Governor of Jakarta Anies Baswedan entering the courtroom and shaking hands with his legal team
4. Presidential candidates with their teams waiting for verdict to begin
5. Judges entering the courtroom and taking their seats
6. Constitutional Court’s Chief Justice Suhartoyo opening the trial by banging the gavel
7. Pan left of the trial
8. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Justice Suhartoyo, Constitutional Court’s Chief:
"To adjudicate, reject the objections of the respondent and related parties in their entirety. In the main petition, (the Court) rejects the petitioner’s appeal entirely."
9. Baswedan and Muhaimin Iskandar, Deputy speaker of the People's Representative Council
10. Election commissioners
11. Mid of Pranowo and his team
12. Justice Suhartoyo banging the gavel, standing and bowing before leaving
13. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Todung Mulya Lubis, lawyer for the candidates:
"There are three dissenting opinions, which means that the mandate given to Prabowo (Subianto)-Gibran (Rakabuming Raka) was not a full mandate, so this victory was given with the note that there was a problem in the distribution of social assistance (which was distributed by President Joko Widodo ahead of the election)."
14. Pan left of protesters, listening to the speech
15. Women protesters listening
16. Religious leaders giving speeches, UPSOUND (Indonesian): "The creator of chaos in this country is Jokowi (president Joko Widodo), so starting today, we must strive for Jokowi to be impeached."
17. Pan right of protesters chanting "impeach, impeach while clenching their fists"
18. Various of protesters
20. Mid of posters reading (Indonesian): "Arrest and prosecute Joko Widodo, the source of all problems, the king of nepotism, disqualification of candidate pair 02, (Prabowo Gibran), criminal of democracy."
STORYLINE:
Indonesia’s top court on Monday rejected appeals lodged by two losing presidential candidates who are demanding a revote, alleging widespread irregularities and fraud at the February polls.

The 5-to-3 majority decision by the eight-judge panel of the Constitutional Court rejected the arguments, saying the legal teams of the losing candidates had failed to prove allegations that Prabowo Subianto’s victory was the result of widespread fraud.

The Court “rejects the petitioner’s appeal entirely,” Constitutional Court Chief Justice Suhartoyo said Monday, after a panel of eight judges took a marathon six hours to publicly read its reasoning in turn on both separate appeals. The verdict cannot be appealed.

The General Elections Commission, known as KPU, had certified a landslide victory for president-elect Subianto, but his rivals, former Jakarta Gov. Anies Baswedan and former Central Java Gov. Ganjar Pranowo alleged that the victory had depended on large-scale fraud and widespread state interference.

They also alleged nepotism, challenging the candidacy of outgoing President Joko Widodo’s eldest son, Gibran Rakabuming Raka, as Subianto's running mate.

Baswedan and Pranowo argued that Raka, 37, should have been disqualified because the minimum age for candidates is 40, and they asked the court to bar him from a revote.

Before the election, Raka was granted a controversial exception to that requirement by the Constitutional Court, which was then led by Anwar Usman, Widodo’s brother-in-law.
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