BALI, Public Relations of the Constitutional Court—In the middle of an international symposium of the Constitutional Court, three states in the working committee of the Judicial Conference of the Constitutional/Supreme Courts of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (J-OIC) had a meeting on Monday (4/11/2019) in Nusa Dua, Bali. They were the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Indonesia (MKRI), the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Turkey, and the Supreme Court of Pakistan.

The MKRI was represented by Chief Justice Anwar Usman, the Constitutional Court of Turkey by Deputy President Recep Kormucu, and the Supreme Court of Pakistan by Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa. They discussed a future meeting of the countries that endorse the Declaration of Istanbul: the MKRI, the Constitutional Court of Turkey, the Supreme Court of Pakistan, the the Supreme Court of Algiers, and the Constitutional Court of Gambia, which will be held in Jakarta in 2020.

The working committee of the J-OIC serves to study the form of organization that will be established. Therefore, each secretary general or liaison from the five member states of the working committee will draw up a concept of the organization, which will be discussed by the five chairpersons of each member state. After it has been agreed by the five chairpersons, it will be discussed at the meeting to be held in 2020.

In the meeting, Recep Kormucu also agreed this organization must help overcome Islamopobia. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan revealed that actually Islamic countries also implement democracy, because democracy is actually an Islamic teaching. (Ilham/LA)

Translated by: Yuniar Widiastuti