> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.theglobalvoice.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Indonesia Court Weighs Bid to Remove Vice-President Gibran - URL: https://www.theglobalvoice.com/indonesia-court-weighs-bid-to-remove-vice-president-gibran/ - Published: 2026-10-06T10:31:56.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-06T10:31:56.000Z - Description: Indonesia’s Constitutional Court is considering a petition seeking to annul Vice-President Gibran Rakabuming Raka’s election over his foreign education credentials. The case could remove him from office, although opponents argue that only Parliament can initiate the constitutional process. - Author: TGV Desk - Tags: Indonesia, Live Wire, The Day So Far, Gibran Rakabuming Raka, Prabowo Subianto, Constitutional Court, Indonesian Politics, has-audio Indonesia’s Constitutional Court is preparing to rule on an extraordinary attempt to annul Vice-President Gibran Rakabuming Raka’s 2024 election victory over allegations that his overseas education did not satisfy the legal requirements for his candidacy. The nine-judge court is scheduled to deliver its decision at 8 p.m. Jakarta time on Tuesday. If the petition succeeds, it could remove Gibran from office, force Indonesia to select a replacement vice-president and create a major political crisis for President Prabowo Subianto’s government. However, the court is not conducting a conventional impeachment proceeding. The petition has been filed as a dispute over the validity of the 2024 presidential election result, nearly two years after Prabowo and Gibran were inaugurated. Whether such a dispute can still be reopened is one of the central questions before the judges. The case was brought by 12 petitioners, including former deputy law minister Denny Indrayana, the Indonesian Independent Election Monitoring Committee, the Ummat Party, retired military officers and several citizens. They argue that Gibran did not possess the educational document required when he registered as a vice-presidential candidate. Indonesian election law requires presidential and vice-presidential candidates to have completed senior high school, vocational high school or an equivalent level of education. Gibran studied at Orchid Park Secondary School in Singapore and later attended UTS Insearch in Australia before obtaining a bachelor’s degree through the Management Development Institute of Singapore. The dispute centres on an equivalency certificate issued by Indonesia’s Education Ministry. The certificate assessed Gibran’s overseas studies as equivalent to an Indonesian vocational high-school education. Election authorities relied on it when accepting his candidacy. The petitioners claim that the certificate was not supported by an actual senior-secondary diploma, graduation certificate or another qualifying document. They argue that an administrative equivalency assessment cannot substitute for proof that a candidate completed the education required under election law. During the [Constitutional Court’s hearings](https://en.mkri.id/news/details/2026-10-02/Ministry%5FOfficial%5FSays%5FEquivalency%5FCertificate%5FDoes%5FNot%5FEqual%5FDiploma?ref=theglobalvoice.com), Education Ministry official Taufiq Damarjati said the equivalency decision was based on Gibran’s overall academic record. He acknowledged that a diploma was not submitted with the 2019 application and explained that the assessment compared subjects taken during Gibran’s overseas education with courses taught in Indonesian vocational schools. The former chairman of the General Elections Commission, Hasyim Asy’ari, rejected claims that Gibran’s candidacy suffered from an administrative defect. He argued that election officials were entitled to rely on the certificate issued by the ministry responsible for evaluating foreign qualifications. Gibran’s supporters and election-law experts have also challenged the petitioners’ legal standing. Under Indonesian law, presidential election-result disputes are normally brought by competing candidate pairs within a strict period after the results are announced. The present petition was filed long after the election, certification and inauguration were completed. They argue that once Gibran took office, questions concerning his removal moved into Indonesia’s separate impeachment framework. Articles 7A and 7B of the Constitution require the House of Representatives to initiate the process. The Constitutional Court would then determine whether the president or vice-president committed specified violations or no longer satisfied the constitutional qualifications for office, before the People’s Consultative Assembly made the final decision. The current case attempts to follow a different route. Instead of asking Parliament to impeach Gibran, the petitioners want the court to declare that he was never legally qualified as a candidate and that his election was consequently invalid from the beginning. Their requested remedy would require the People’s Consultative Assembly to choose a replacement from two candidates nominated by Prabowo within 60 days. The [petition submitted to the court](https://en.mkri.id/news/details/2026-09-21/Denny%5FIndrayana%5FChallenges%5FVP%5FGibran%E2%80%99s%5FEducation%5FQualification%5Ffor%5F2024%5FElection?ref=theglobalvoice.com) therefore seeks not merely a finding about education documents but the termination of Gibran’s vice-presidency. --- The challenge has revived controversy surrounding Gibran’s rise to national office. He was 36 when the Constitutional Court ruled in October 2023 that candidates younger than 40 could contest presidential elections if they had previously held elected office. Gibran qualified because he was mayor of Surakarta. That ruling was deeply controversial because the court’s then chief justice, Anwar Usman, was Gibran’s uncle and the brother-in-law of then president Joko Widodo. A judicial ethics body later found Anwar responsible for serious ethical violations and removed him as chief justice, although the eligibility ruling remained valid. Gibran subsequently became Prabowo’s running mate. Their ticket won approximately 58.6% of the national vote, defeating the Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar and Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud MD tickets in a single round. The Constitutional Court rejected challenges filed by both defeated campaigns in April 2024. The latest case therefore asks the judges to revisit an election result the same court previously allowed to become final. A decision against Gibran would reshape the government and further strain relations between Prabowo and former president Widodo, Gibran’s father. A rejection would leave Gibran in office but would not end the wider political argument over how his candidacy was approved.