The Secretary General of the Constitutional Court (The Court) Janedjri M. Gaffar when closing the colloquium âIncreasing Constitutional Understanding and Constitutional Court Procedural Law for Christian High Education Societyâ a cooperation between the Constitutional Court and Institut Leimena, Sunday (27/3) afternoon at Gran Melia Hotel, Jakarta.
Jakarta, MKOnline - The Secretary General of the Constitutional Court (The Court) Janedjri M. Gaffar officially closed the colloquium on “Increasing Constitutional Understanding and Constitutional Court’s Procedural Law for Christian High Education Society” a joint work between The Court and Institut Leimena (Leimena Institute) on Sunday (27/3) afternoon at the Gran Melia Hotel, Jakarta. The event was held as an effort to build constitutional awareness which started on Friday (25/3) afternoon.
In his speech, Janedjri pointed out the importance of constitution as the bond for the diversity. Indonesian people could not avoid the fact that plurality was the thing that put us together in one nation and one motherland. “For a country with high level of plurality, it is very fragile to have conflicts,” expressed Janedjri M. Gaffar before officially closed the three-day event.
Conflicts would be hard to prevent if leaders of this country could not remain fair, in fact there would be riots after riots. The phenomenon was potential to hinder the spreading of the awareness on the stem of nationality values, especially it would loosen the national bond.
“Therefore, to face the challenge, constitution is the answer. As long as we hold on tightly to follow constitution, our country will still be exist and survive in dealing with big challenges and crises that we experience,” said Janedjri.
Substance of the Event
The colloquium held by The Court and Institut Leimena lasted from 25-27 of March 2011 by presenting several credible resource persons, among others, Deputy Chief Justice of The Court Achmad Sodiki who talked about the topic “Constitutional Court, Progressive laws and Substantive Justice.”
“The Court had laid a foundation as a modern court whose decisions are enthusiastically welcome by the people because it can anticipate the deadlocks in politics. The Decisions of The Court are not just merely implying positive laws. If the aspect of justice is marginalized by the positive laws, The Court would be strict in putting the justice aspect forward,” stated Sodiki.
He also said that the law was used to humanize people, not just a mean to reach the goal. This would mean that happiness and prosperity which became the intention of law, should also be achieved by ways that uphold the nobility of man.
Meanwhile, other resource person Constitutional Justice Akil Mochtar brought an actual topic “Constitutional Court, General Election and Dispute over the election result”. He explained that according to the Article 74 paragraph (2) of the Act on Constitutional Court, the dispute over election result was a dispute between participants of the election (political parties, individuals for City Council members, Presidential candidates) against the election commission as the organizer of the election.
“Meanwhile, the dispute over regional election result is a dispute between candidates for regional heads as participants against the provincial and/or regency/city election commission as the organizer,” stated Akil to refer to Article 106 of Act 32/2004 on Regional Government
Furthermore, another resource person Constitutional Justice Harjono discussed the topic “Indonesian constitutional system after the amendment of the 1945 Constitution”. Apart from Harjono, there were Constitutional Justice Hamdan Zoelva, former Justice Maruarar Siahaan, the Secretary General Janedjri M. Gaffar, expert in constitutional law Dr. Ali Safaat and Jakob Tobing as the President of Institut Leimena bringing different topics (Nano Tresna A/mh/YDJ)
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