JAKARTA: The Indonesian Constitutional Court on Thursday (Jun 15) rejected a lawsuit that seeks to change the way the country runs its parliamentary election, contrary to a recent rumour spread by a former deputy justice minister that claimed otherwise.
Indonesia currently adopts the so-called “open-list proportional representation” system for its parliamentary election, allowing Indonesians to directly vote for a particular candidate.
The Constitutional Court however dismissed these arguments on Thursday, saying that these issues and threats exist regardless of which election system Indonesia adopts. The court’s decision on Thursday was vastly different from claims made by former deputy justice minister, Mr Denny Indrayana, who on May 28 said that he had received information from “a person whose credibility I trust greatly” that only three of the nine Constitutional Court judges purportedly agreed to keep the current system in place.
Constitutional Court judge Saldi Isra said although the former deputy minister’s claims had tarnished the court's credibility and image, the court will not file a police report against him for criminal defamation.
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