The ruling permitted President Jokowi’s son to run alongside defence minister Prabowo Subianto.
Indonesia’s president Joko Widodo has faced accusations from critics that he may have interfered in the Constitutional Court’s judges’ decision.
The panel was formed to probe the conduct of the court’s nine judges amid public outcry after they decided, just three days out from election registration, that a minimum age requirement of 40 need not apply to all candidates. “The reported judges were found to have collectively violated the constitutional judges’ ethical behaviour code,” ethics panel chief Jimly Asshiddiqie said during an announcement on the panel’s findings.
The ethics panel said the first six judges had violated the principles of decency and appropriateness because they had handled a case that had a potential conflict of interest for the chief justice.
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