In this handout picture taken and released by Indonesia's Presidential Palace on June 27, 2019, Indonesian President Joko Widodo and his next term Vice President Maruf Amin greet each other in Jakarta, before Widodo's departure to Japan to attend the G20 meeting. — AFP: Indonesia’s constitutional court Thursday rejected a bid to overturn President Joko Widodo’s election victory and dismissed his defeated challenger’s claims of widespread voter fraud as groundless.
In the course of a hearing that stretched over nine hours, the panel painstakingly described many of the allegations — including vote buying and that biased civil servants favoured Widodo — as baseless. His lawyers sought to overturn the official results that declared Widodo the winner with 55.5% of votes, against Subianto’s 44.5%.“This ruling is very disappointing for us and our supporters but as has been agreed we will comply with and follow the constitution,“ he said in a televised address.Subianto, who lost a similar court battle in 2014 when Widodo defeated him, has little recourse, according to constitutional law expert Refly Harun.
Last month, peaceful protests against the official result by Subianto supporters erupted into two nights of street battles between police and rioters, leaving nine people dead and hundreds injured in the capital’s worst violence in years. This week, Amnesty International called for an independent probe into what it called “grave human rights violations” by police against protesters — including beatings and “torture” — and allegations that they were behind the killings of demonstrators.
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