Jakarta (VNA) – Thousands of armed troops weredeployed across Jakarta on June 14 while the Indonesian Constitutional Court was holding a hearing intoa petition challenging the 2019 election result.
Rioting protests took placeon May 21-22 after the General Elections Commission(KPU) announced the results of the presidential and parliamentary elections.
The final tallyshowed that the Joko Widodo-Ma’ruf Amin pair secured 85 million votes (55.5percent), while the Prabowo Subianto-Sandiaga Uno pair garnered 68 millionvotes (44.5 percent).
Prabowo rejectedthe results and filed a lawsuit to the Constitutional Court.
On June 14, thecourt considered related evidence shown by lawyers of Prabowo before decidingthat whether the evidence is strong enough toproceed with the case.
National police spokesman DediPrasetyo said 32,000 police officers and soldiers had been deployed acrossJakarta in anticipation of any potential for disruption that could interferewith proceedings.
Eight people were killed and over700 hurt in the riots in prior protests.-VNA