Secretary General of the Constitutional Court Janedjri M. Gaffar being the guest speaker at the Education Training and Awareness -Defense Force National Level XIV in 2013, organized by the Ministry of Youth and Sports, Friday (09/20/2013). The event was attended by participants from youth in Indonesia located in 200/Raiders Infantry Battalion Training Command, Gandus, Palembang, South Sumatra.

In the exposure given to the youth with the theme "Increasing Understanding Urgency Citizens Constitutional Rights", Janedjri explained that if the country adopts the sovereignty of the people, the people are sovereign owners. 

Social covenant that is poured into the constitution, said Janedjri, on one side of the set to give legitimacy to the state officials, on the other hand to limit the power of the state organization. Conception of power limitation is that developed into constitutionalism, namely understood that protect people’s rights, both as citizens and as human beings.

Janedji said, the Constitution of Indonesia after the 1945 amendment to the Constitution contains the basic principles of organizing the state, state institutions and the relationship between state institutions, regulate civil rights, political rights, economic rights, social and cultural rights, and the rights of people with disabilities and special conditions consisting of 33 grain protection provisions of the constitutional rights of citizens. Constitutional rights, namely the right to life , work , freedom of religion, right to recognition as a person before the law , the right to participate in government, association, assembly an opinion, pick and choose, the right to obtain remuneration and equal treatment in employment and occupation, forming families, develop and advance themselves, children’s rights, and women’s rights.

A form of protection of citizens’ constitutional rights is the establishment of the Constitutional Court under Article 24C ( 1 ) of the 1945 Constitution is the authority to hear at the first and last decision is final in the 1945 Constitution, to decide disputes the authority of state institutions the authority granted by the Constitution, dissolution of political parties , to decide disputes about the election results , and is obliged to make a decision on the opinion of the House of Representatives regarding the alleged violations by the President and / or Vice President by the Constitution. In the development, the authority of the Court as provided in Section 236C of Law 12 of 2008 on the Second Amendment Act 32 of 2004 on Regional Government is handling disputes Election voting results.

Thus , the establishment of state institutions provided for in the Constitution Court is a manifestation of a form of the state’s responsibility to protect the constitutional rights of citizens as the guardian of the constitution, final interpreter of the Constitution, the guardian of democracy, and the protection of constitutional rights of citizens and human rights. ( Heru Setiawan / mh )