In July 2018, the Constitutional Court decided to prohibit political party officials from becoming members of the Regional Representative Council (DPD). In response, the General Election Commission (KPU) issued a KPU Regulation (PKPU) No. 26/2018 (which revised PKPU No. 14/2018) and canceled the nomination of several individuals, including Oesman Sapta Odang (OSO), the current leader of the DPD who is also the Chairman of Hanura. OSO objected to the KPU decision and challenged the PKPU 26 in the Supreme Court. In the last week of October 2018, the Supreme Court granted OSO’s lawsuit. Entering April 2019, the case sparked another debate after the Supreme Court and the State Administrative Court (PTUN) demanded the KPU to execute their decisions though it ran contrary to the decision of the Constitutional Court. The KPU refused to comply.
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