Constitutional Justice Maria Farida Indrati provides material about the Constitutional Court (MK) to the students who participated in "Leadership Development Program Indonesia: Global Leadership, Indonesian Colors, Monday (10/10). Located at the Press Conference Room 4th Floor of the Court, students from various parts of Indonesia were enthusiastically listening to Maria exposure delivered. When entering a question and answer session, students were competing to ask questions. 

"You have seven o’clock this morning to come to Court? Wow, you really mean future leaders. Just like the Court, we never late when the trial started. Always on time because the discipline is the key to success, "said student Maria commented on the group of participants who arrive on time to the Court. 

Furthermore, she often inserts words motivations to students who come are on the sidelines of delivering the material surrounding the Court. "I can be the judge constitution for learning and give priority to school. That’s the message of my parents. My parents told me I was given the estate would not be eternal, if the fire out, if flooding can also be washed away. But if the knowledge gained from learning to high it will not be endless, "said Mary about her personal experience as well as motivate students to continue their studies. 

Related to the Court, Maria explained that the Court has the authority, i.e. authority to hear at the first and last decision is final to test the Act against the Constitution, rule on the dispute the authority of state institutions whose authorities are granted by the 1945 Constitution, to decide the dissolution of political parties, decide disputes concerning the results of the General Election, and shall give a decision on the opinion of the House of Representatives regarding the alleged violations by the President and / or Vice President according to the 1945 Constitution.

"Of all the powers of the Constitutional Court, the Court has never made the authority decided to dissolve the political parties and dismiss the president according to the opinion of the House," said Maria.

Of all the authority of the Constitutional Court on the above, Mary said to the students and white-gray matter was that the most time-consuming election of judges of the constitution. The reason is, until today only by Maria already there are 100 more cases that go. Last year, the Court decided a case that election more.

"The sign of Indonesia’s still greedy of power if it’s a lot of election matters. For example, often a county election petition filed by three pairs of candidates who lost. If the losing nine, the rest can apply. And the Court also decided by nine different verdict. That’s what makes his case too much because the numbers are different, "explains Maria on election matters that deplete the Court’s attention.

She further explained that the constitution consists of nine judges of the three men taken from the House, the three men taken from the Supreme Court, and three people from the government / president. The judges of the Constitutional Court can be served for two terms that once his term of office for 5 years.

To convince students that constitutional judges are free of interest and remain independent even though derived from elements of the political parties in parliament, she said whoever become the judges were out of the party constitution and party interests. "Until now the constitutional judges from the House as Mr. Mahfud, Mr. Akil Mochtar, and Harjono are maintained impartiality or independence," said Maria.

Finally, she said, as an institution funded from public money, the Court has always tried to give the best to the community. This was evidenced one of the openness of all court proceedings in the Court since the petition, the trial evidence, to the pronunciation of the verdict. "In the Court’s website all the minutes of the hearing, what happens during a trial can be seen. For the decision, it can also be downloaded five to ten minutes after the pronunciation of the verdict been read. The news of MKTV was also one of them to socialize the role of the Constitutional Court and the public will be aware of their constitutional rights, "close the only woman judge constitution. (Yusti Nurul Agustin / mh/Yazid.tr)