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Chief Justice Anwar Usman delivering a keynote speech at a national seminar organized by the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education of Pattimura University, Friday (11/6/2021) from the Constitutional Court. Photo by Humas MK/Ifa.

Friday, June 11, 2021 | 10:56 WIB

JAKARTA, Public Relations—The Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court (MK) Anwar Usman delivered a keynote speech at a national seminar organized by the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education of Pattimura University (FKIP Unpatti) on Friday, June 11, 2021. As many as 557 students of the Pancasila and Civic Education study program from the faculty attended the seminar both virtually and in person. Also in attendance were Unpatti Rector Marthinus J. Saptenno, Unpatti Deputy Rector for Students and Alumni Jusuf Madubun, Unpatti  FKIP Dean I. H. Wenno, as well as another speaker, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI) lecturer Sapriya,

In the seminar on “The Implementation of Pancasila in the Dynamics of Social, Nation, and State Life,” the chief justice said that Pancasila is the foundation in the 1945 Constitution so much so that even the last paragraph of the Preamble to the 1945 Constitution contains the precepts of Pancasila. So, he added, Pancasila is the nation’s legal ideal because it is the main norm in the country.

Justice Anwar said further that the state’s ideals and the basic ideology are described in the body of the Constitution, which lays down the state regulations and the positions of state institutions, guarantees the lives of citizens, and so on. The founding fathers, through the Preamble to the 1945 Constitution, built the concept of the Indonesian state that must be carried out according to the Constitution. Justice Anwar acknowledges that the life of the nation and state is closely related to the law.

“Therefore, law as a social institution can be used as a tool to form the order of social life,” he said.

Justice Anwar also said that changes in a society and renewal of the concept of state development require a solid and dynamic constitutional foundation, so the Constitution lives in society. This constitution reform is also embodied in the amendment to the 1945 Constitution. Through the amendment, he said, new institutions were born, one of which is the Constitutional Court, which serves to maintain constitutional values along with the efforts to advance development. He said that although normatively the Constitution guarantees the rights of citizens, every citizen must keep a close eye on its developments so that no constitutional rights are violated.

“The dynamics of social life is inseparable from constitutional values, which are the elaboration of Pancasila values—none other than the state philosophy. Therefore, the commitment to implement the values contained therein is a shared responsibility,” he said.

After presentations by Chief Justice Anwar Usman and UPI lecturer Sapriya, the participants were given the opportunity to ask questions. The seminar was very lively as the participants and the speakers discuss the seminar’s topic.

Writer           : Sri Pujianti
Editor          : Nur R.
Translator     : Yuniar Widiastuti (NL)

Translation uploaded on 6/11/2021 16:25 WIB

Disclaimer: The original version of the news is in Indonesian. In case of any differences between the English and the Indonesian version, the Indonesian version will prevail.

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