Indonesia probes potential leak of election system verdict

Indonesia‘s Coordinating Minister for Politics, Legal and Security, Mohammad Mahfud Mahmodin, has called for an investigation into a potential leak involving a Constitutional Court verdict that could alter the country’s parliamentary election system. This comes after former deputy justice minister, Denny Indrayana, claimed that the court had repealed the current “open-list proportional representation” system for Indonesia’s parliamentary elections.

Indrayana stated that he received information from a highly credible source that the Constitutional Court would rule in favour of returning to the “closed proportional system,” which was replaced in 2009 due to widespread criticism. Under the closed system, voters could only vote for a political party, rather than a specific candidate.

Fajar Laksono, a spokesperson for the Constitutional…