REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Results of the quick counts have no legal binding, so the two presidential candidates have to wait for the real count by the General Elections Commission (KPU), constitutional expert, Margarito Kamis said.
However, if a miscalculation is found in the vote counting it should be taken to the Constitutional Court, the expert suggested.
"You should not take the results of quick counts and real counts to the Constitutional Court (MK) alone, but please go there with witnesses who understand the problem. You should also take the forms C1 and D1 and other documents," Margarito said here, Saturday.
The rational mechanism of a legal case dispute settlement was in the Constitutional Court. The party which filed the lawsuit could explain their reasons objectively, he said.
In the meantime, the Supervisory Council chairman of the Forum of Rectors, Laode M Kamaluddin, said the risk of potential conflict in the current presidential elections could be eliminated if any one of the two contesting presidential candidates were willing to accept defeat.
"It would be better if the two candidates talk to each other and state that they are ready to accept defeat. Until now, only one of the two candidates has made such a statement. It is the attitude of the candidates which will determine whether democratic processes will end in chaos or not," he said.
Following the July 9 presidential election, the two presidential candidates contesting the race immediately claimed victories based on unofficial quick count results.
Indonesia had organized a free and democratic presidential election on July 9, 2014, which was contested by only two pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates: Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa and Jokowi-JK.
Prabowo Subianto is a retired military general and the chairman of Gerindra (Great Indonesia Movement) Party, while his running mate, Hatta Rajasa, is a former coordinating minister for economic affairs and the chairman of the National Mandate Party (PAN).
Jokowi is Jakarta's governor and a cadre of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP), and his running mate, JK, is a former vice president and a senior politician of the Golkar Party.
The Jokowi-JK pair is supported by five political parties: the Indonesia Democratic Party Struggle (PDIP), the Nation Awakening Party (PKB), the People's Conscience Party (Hanura), the Justice and Indonesian Unity Party (PKPI), and the National Democrats Party (Nasdem) established by Surya Paloh, owner of Metro TV and the Media Indonesia newspaper.
The Prabowo-Hatta pair is supported by Gerindra, PAN, the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), the United Development Party (PPP), the Moon and Star Party (PBB), and the Golkar Party, whose current chairman is Aburizal Bakrie, owner of TV One.
A total of 190,307,134 eligible voters had been registered by the KPU for the July 9 presidential election, consisting of 188,268,423 voters at home and 2,038,711 overseas.
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