JAKARTA(SINDO) – President Consideration Board (Wantimpres) had prepared a female justice to fill a justice position in the Constitutional Court from President line.

According to a member of the Wantimpres, Adnan Buyung Nasution, the President had three slots to determine the Constitutional Court Justices. Unlike last year, this time, of the three candidates to be submitted by the President, one would be taken from a female justice.

The step, according to the former head of Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation, was taken so that in the future the Constitutional Court had a gender perspective in issuing every verdict. “By having a female justice, I believe that in the future the Constitutional Court’s perspective in the verdict will be more complete,” emphasized Adnan Buyung in Jakarta yesterday.

To realize that, his side at the moment is doing the selection for several candidates, including female which later would be submitted to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY). The selection, according to him, was conducted by a team he had formed.

“Because, if we wait for someone with integrity and high credibility to register to the Wantimpres, I think until nearing the next August we will not find any. Therefore we do the selection,” he explained. In his effort, the senior law practicioner believed that he could find a female Statesperson to guard the State’s constitution.

“I don’t believe that among so many women, there is not a single one. I believe that there will be someone found by our team,” he exclaimed. Furthermore Buyung stated that the selection conducted by his team will find six candidates to be handed in to the President. Of the six candidates then it will be reduced to three.

“After proposing six candidates then we will ask the President that one female candidate will be chosen,” he added. A member of Commission III of the Parliament, Eva Sundari, gave a positive response to this decision. She said that a female justice in the Constitutional Court would give balance in a constitutional perspective.

A female justice would also be sensitive and responsive to constitutional breaching in which female was the constitutionally-violated object. “The female perspective will not reduce the Statespersonship of a justice. On contrary, with that perspective a justice would be more a Stateperson because of the willingness to see from the minority point of view,” she said.

Because of that, she expected that the plan to be realized. Moreover, the candidates from the President’s side did not have to go through a selection process as the Parliament did, therefore there would be no strain in political interests.

“The process in the President there is no resistence as it is in the Parliament. Because of that, in many opportunities I always told Bang Buyung (Adnan Buyung) to include one female to be a Constitution Justice,” she ended. (rahmat sahid)

Source: HU Seputar Indonesia / Selasa, 08 April 2008
Photo courtesy of Constitutional Court Public Relation Document
Translated by Yogi Djatnika (MKRI)