Dream - Hakim Constitutional Court (MK), Saldi Isra, grilled an expert from the Prabowo-Gibran camp, Khalilul Khairi, regarding his statement about "government support candidates." Khalilul conveyed this when responding to the accusation of Indonesian President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) deploying regional interim officials to win Prabowo-Gibran. He presented a comparison of the number of interim regional officials with the defeat of Prabowo-Gibran in Aceh.

"If indeed the head of the regional government can be relied upon to become a machine for the victory of a particular candidate, especially the government-supported candidate, in this case, of course, it is the 02 candidate that we are discussing, " said Halilul during the dispute hearing of the 2024 Presidential Election, on Thursday, April 4, 2024. "The logic is that Aceh is the province with the highest vote acquisition because it is the highest regional government in Indonesia. In reality, 02 only has 24 percent," he added."

Bengkulu is the province with the fewest number of acting regional heads. However, Prabowo-Gibran actually won in that province. "In fact, the 'government-supported candidate' received 70 percent of the votes," he said.

Constitutional Judge Saldi Isra then questioned Halilul's intention in mentioning Prabowo-Gibran as "government-supported candidates". "There were two or three times earlier that you mentioned government-supported candidates, government, what do you mean by government-supported candidates in the expert's statement earlier, please answer this first," said Saldi Isra.

"Alright," said Khalilul. "Answer this first. Later, if possible, check in the previous document whether you mentioned it two or three times," Saldi firmly stated. Khalilul appeared flustered. He then justified himself, claiming that there were accusations against the Acting Head of the region for supporting a candidate directed by the government. "I might mean that he supports his acting candidate, what is accused is whether he should support a candidate directed by the government, for example," he said."

"So if that's the case, there will be candidates directed by the government, right?" Saldi asked. "Earlier, I simulated, what if he received orders from the government," Khalilul replied. Saldi asked Khalilul to explain clearly because the expert's testimony would be considered by the Constitutional Court. "This matter needs to be clear because it will be taken into consideration," said Saldi.