Chief Constitutional Justice Anwar Usman with book authors in a book review at the Convention Hall of Andalas University, Friday (13/9). Photo by Humas MK/Agung Sumarna.

PADANG, Public Relations of the Constitutional Court—Celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Constitutional Court on August 13, 2019 and the 63rd anniversary of Andalas University, the Constitutional Court in collaboration with Andalas University conducted a book review on Friday (13/9/2019). A total of 25 books on law and constitution were reviewed during at the Andalas University Convention Hall.

At opening ceremony, Chief Constitutional Justice Anwar Usman revealed the initial idea of the book release. Initially the Constitutional Court had planned to launch 16 books for the anniversary of the Court. However, upon recommendation of Constitutional Justice Saldi Isra, the Constitutional Court launched 25 books written by Constitutional Justices and the employees of the Constitutional Court. "Initially [we] were going to launch 16 books to coincide with the 16th anniversary of the Constitutional Court. It turns out that [the output] exceeded the target of 25 books," said Justice Anwar. 

He thanked Constitutional Justice Saldi Isra who had assisted and provided creativity and intellectuality that the 25 books could be finished. He also said that the book review was an effort to improve the academic culture and tradition within the Constitutional Court and Andalas University and improve legal knowledge directly from state justice institutions.

When reviewing a book by Ahmad Fadlil Sumadi (a constitutional justice of 2010-2015) entitled "Procedural Law of the Constitutional Court: Development in Practice," Constitutional Justice Suhartoyo explained that procedural law is a formal law that is always used as a reference in enforcing material laws.

He also explained that there was a link between the development of procedural law practice in the Constitutional Court and the development of practice juxtaposed with the decisions of the Constitutional Court. The Constitutional Court\\'s decisions are outstanding as they have impacts on material law and formal law. 

Reviewing a book by Mardian Wibowo on "Open Legal Policy," Indonesian legal expert Yuliandri explained that there is no perfect law, including the Constitution as the highest law, so many norms in the Constitution are then challenged at the Constitutional Court. (Agung/NRA)

Translated by: Yuniar Widiastuti