Secretary-General M. Guntur Hamzah delivering an annual progress report at the Meeting of Secretaries-General of the AACC, Thursday (26/8/2021). Photo by Humas MK/Ifa.
Thursday, August 26, 2021 | 20:17 WIB
BUKITTINGGI, Public Relations—The COVID-19 pandemic did not prevent the Association of Asian Constitutional Courts and Equivalent Institutions (AACC) from holding a series of routine events for the association’s development. For two days on Thursday and Friday, August 26-27, 2021, the AACC carried out an internal symposium, Meeting of Secretaries-General (MSG), and Board of Members Meeting (BoMM) virtually. The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Indonesia (MKRI) as one of its permanent secretariats attended the events from Bukittinggi, West Sumatera.
The first day started with the MSG, officially opened by the Secretary-General of the Constitutional Council of Kazakhstan Bakyt Nurmukhanov. Three permanent secretariats of the AACC delivered a report for the period of September 2020 to August 2021.
Secretary-General of the MKRI M. Guntur Hamzah delivered his report of the AACC’s Secretariat for Planning and Coordination (SPC), which included the communication platform for the AACC liaison officers (LOs) in the form of a WhatsApp group and the Internal Menu feature on the AACC’s website, the admission of new member into the AACC, the inventory of the AACC members’ activities, the publication and dissemination of information of the secretariat’s progress report, updates on the AACC’s website, and intensive communication with members and prospective members. He also conveyed the SPC’s plans for the following period, including the induction of prospective members, the issuance of the SPC newsletter Volume II, and the development of the AACC’s website.
“We would also like to continue communication and coordination with the AACC members to ensure their active participation in all events by the AACC,” he added.
Next, the Secretary-General of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Korea Park Jong Mun delivered his report of the Secretariat for Research and Development (SRD), regarding the SRD’s annual conference, the secondment program at the SRD that targets the research staff of the AACC members, and the development of an online forum into a platform for knowledge sharing between the AACC members and the SRD. The SRD also reported that they had been generating output such as annual book projects, research papers, and other materials.
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The SRD’s report was followed up by the report of the Center for Training and Human Resources Development (CTHRD) by the Secretary-General of the Constitutional Court of Turkey Murat Şen. He provided updates on the CTHRD’s summer school program, which had been carried out eight times. He also talked about the center’s plan to hold the ninth summer school program virtually on September 7-8, 2021 on account of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Following the reports by the three secretariats Bakyt Nurmukhanov informed the AACC members of the BoMM agenda, which included the report by the AACC President, the inauguration of the Constitutional Court of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan as the newest member of the AACC, the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Conference of European Constitutional Courts (CECC), and the transfer of the AACC presidency from the Constitutional Council of Kazakhstan to the Constitutional Court of Mongolia, and then to the Constitutional Court of Thailand.
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Meeting with Eurasian Association of Constitutional Review Bodies
At the same day, prior to the MSG, the MKRI had first convened with the Eurasian Association of Constitutional Review Bodies (EACRB). Chairman of the Constitutional Council of Kazakhstan Kairat Mami as chairman of the EACRB congratulated the MKRI for receiving the support of the Bureau of the World Conference of Constitutional Justice (WCCJ) to host its fifth congress. The WCCJ Secretary-General Schnutz Dürr also expressed his appreciation of the MKRI’s readiness to host the congress.
Guntur Hamzah reported that the MKRI had received full support from the President of the Republic of Indonesia, the House of Representatives, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in carrying out all the arrangements for the smooth hosting of the congress. This was followed by a short video of the MKRI’s preparation for the congress, which will take place in 2022.
“We sincerely hope that the upcoming fifth WCCJ Congress in Bali will contribute to creating a roadmap to achieve constitutional justice and global peace through the strategic role of the judiciary,” Guntur said.
Writer : Yuniar Widiastuti
Editor : Lulu Anjarsari P.
Translator : Yuniar Widiastuti (NL)
Translation uploaded on 8/30/2021 19:49 WIB
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