The Constitutional Court (MK) represented by Junior Registrar II, Muhidin receiving Faculty of Sharia Islamic Institute NU (INISNU), Jepara in a Press Conference, 4th floor of the Constitutional Court building on Friday (25/1). 

Faculty of Sharia INISNU students visit actually started at 08.00 pm. However, due to delays in the student group, the event started around 11:00 pm. Because collided with at Friday prayers, the meeting runs short, which is about one hour. Even so, Muhidin deliver material to the surrounding MK fairly complete and peppered with questions from the students.

Starting his presentation, Muhidin said that after the 1945 changes, the position of state institutions in Indonesia to be aligned. When there used to be the highest body and higher institutions, all institutions currently have the power no greater than other institutions. Now the only difference being their duties. MPR has the authority to change the Constitution, while the Court has a duty to preserve and interpret the MPR products," said Muhidin in front of about 70 students’ jacketed young blue alma mater.

According to the provisions of the 1945 Constitution, specifically Article 24C, the Court has the authority and the obligation of four. The authority of the Constitutional Court, which is authorized to hear at the first and last which shall be final legislation to the Constitution, to decide disputes the authority of state institutions the authority granted by the Constitution, dissolution of political parties, and to decide disputes about results elections. While the obligation to do MK, which shall make a decision on the opinion of the House of Representatives regarding the alleged violations by the President and / or Vice-President under the Constitution.

"To Dispute between State Institutions Authority (SKLN), only the state institutions the authority granted by the 1945 Constitution, which can apply to the Court. If you like the KPK’s authority granted by the 1945 Constitution was not it? So it could not apply to the Constitutional Court SKLN. But, if the Commission was right to have been impaired by a law, the Commission may apply judicial review," explained Muhidin while answering question one student.

Muhidin also explained that MK is one of the principals of judicial power, in addition to Supreme Court (MA). Unlike the Supreme Court that has branches in the area, there is only one, namely the Constitutional Court in the capital, Jakarta. In other words, the Court is a court of first and final decision is final on matters constitutional. "So if the litigants in the Constitutional Court, the Constitutional Court decided anything, he should accept it. There is no other legal remedy after that (after the decision of the Court)," said Muhidin.

Muhidin also explained that in the Constitutional Court consists of nine people. The nine were selected each of the three people from the House, MA, and president. Although elected by the three institutions, the constitutional judges remain independent in performing their duties. Judges cannot be intervened by anyone and no longer have a relationship with anything.

At the end of the show, a group of students INISNU give souvenirs in the form of calligraphy from Teak wood. (Yusti Nurul Agustin / mh)