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Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court, Moh. Mahfud MD held a meeting of the alumni friendship with the Islamic University of Indonesia and the Muslim Students Association, at the Hotel Mercure Padang, Friday (07/02). In a meeting is not planned, Mahfud said the meeting was limited to the meeting arena only. "I held a meeting, just to make friendship with alumni UII and HMI, so we are always close and more intimate," he said.

 

In addition, Mahfud said in this forum, that the Muslim Students Association or HMI is the oldest organization in Indonesia. Likewise, Islamic University of Indonesia is the oldest university formerly Islamic High School, which was founded Bung Hatta on July 8, 1945 in Jakarta. In 1946, the Islamic High School moved to Jogjakarta, on February 5, this is due to an attack by the colonialists in Jakarta.

 

Currently, Indonesia has experienced remarkable progress, despite the turbulent domestic political dynamics on the reform and the government of Indonesia. In the progress of Indonesia today, said Mahfud, a few things to say to him? Among others, such as the absence of a dominant power center, as is currently the president was not in control of a state agency, because of the new constitution in the reform states, the power of state institutions is the eight horizontal and functional power, so there is not a state agency higher and lower. With this power-sharing, the president of this age can not manage the country\'s institutions.

 

"Because now that power has been divided by the institutions themselves, so it can not regulate the Presidential powers to regulate an institution. Since democracy in Indonesia is growing so rapidly, "he explained. Currently, the press should not write anything. Because now people are free to publish an article without a license issuance, so Chairman MK Mohammad. Mahfud MD states, democracy in Indonesia has been linked excessive.

 

Subsequent progress, obviously Mahfud, Indonesia has a Constitutional Court. With the institution of a law that is not true it could be canceled. At the time of 1945 to 2003, none of the legislation can be challenged in court. If the law was created and has become a law, it can not be changed anymore even though the law is wrong. And now, in the presence of MK, anyone or there is a law that is wrong and contrary to the constitution can be submitted to the Court. That\'s where the role of the Constitutional Court to overturn legislation in the wrong and defend the constitutional rights. And, as a replacement for MK, MK stood since 9 years, from 530 testing statute, 127 the Constitutional Court annulled the law. This is one of the nation\'s progresses in Indonesia.

 

The Court has canceled 72 members of parliament and parliament elected legally and then on accountability to the Court then canceled by the Constitutional Court. This is just one example of the progress of this nation. Since ancient times there was no election results were canceled. Since the Constitutional Court, which indicated rigged election can be contested in the Constitutional Court and canceled. And, Mahfud said more than 300 people convicted of election fraud in 2009, since ancient times no one was punished for cheating. This is an improvement for the nation Mahfud said in a previous seminar in Singapore.

 

Mahfud also said, in Indonesia at this time there are no more human rights violations. For example, such an offense is planned by the state through the official apparatus and the power of intelligence. As in the case of Aceh, Papua, and Tanjung Priok and Talang Sari and so the New Order era, as planned by the state through formal operation called DOM (military operations area) and that practice as a violation of human rights. "And at the moment there are no more human rights violations since the reform era, because currently there is no law violates his rights because of the people by the state plan. Now these human rights violations often occur horizontally, whereby society groups attacking other communities, not the state attacking the community. But first it is vertical where the above violations are under attack," said Mahfud.

 

Many problems today happen. The question of law enforcement does not exist. Law enforcement is happening done messing around, because the world of law in this country is the most threatened sectors of the nation and this country. Mahfud said, our goal for independence and statehood is to build humanity, that real freedom is the right of all nations, the rule should be eliminated from the face of the earth. That is, we are free to promote human dignity and justice. Because currently achieved independence in this nation.

 

And Mahfud advice that together provides the protection of human rights and justice about the problems of the nation must be resolved. Due to build all this, obviously Mahfud, the government and the people must unite in order to create a nation that puts the human rights and achieve an expected justice. At the end of the event, Mahfud deliver joint task ahead, we do not need to argue about ideology, because Indonesia is currently the nation reach. Just stayed improve aspects of human rights and the rule of law in this country. (HDY / mh)

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