Chief Justice Anwar Usman speaking at the Internal Symposium of the AACC, Thursday (8/27/2021) from Bukittinggi, West Sumatera. Photo by Humas MK.
Monday, August 30, 2021 | 12:14 WIB
BUKITTINGGI, Public Relations—The AACC President Kairat Mami officially opened an international symposium on “The Internet Era: The Rule of Law, the Values of Person, the State Independence” from Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan on Friday, August 27, 2021.
In the first session on “Digitalization and National Sovereignty: Complementarity or Negation” with moderator Kairat Mami, Chairman of the Agency for Strategic Planning and Reforms and Governor of the Astana International Financial Center Kairat Kelimbetov delivered a presentation on “The Role of the Astana International Financial Center in Digitalization and Evolution of the Legal System.” It was then followed by a presentation by the President of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Turkey Zühtü Arslan; the Chief Supreme Justice of Bangladesh Syed Mahmud Hossain; the Minister of Digital Development, Innovations and Aerospace Industry of the Republic of Kazakhstan Bagdat Mussin; the Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Azerbaijan Farhad Abdullayev; the President of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Bulgaria Boris Velchev; and Patrick Dollat, senior lecturer at the University of Strasbourg and the Pantheon-Sorbonne University, and former judge at the Administrative Court of Paris.
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Opening the second session on “Guaranteeing Human Rights and Freedoms on the Internet: Personal Life and Open Space,” the Secretary-General of the World Conference of Constitutional Justice (WCCJ) Schnutz Dürr as moderator expressed his appreciation for the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Indonesia (MKRI) intention to host the fifth WCCJ congress in 2022. He then gave the MKRI delegation the floor to deliver the first presentation of the second session.
Chief Justice Anwar Usman in his presentation on “The Use of Information Technology by the Constitutional Court of Indonesia and Law Enforcement in the New Normal” said the theme of the international symposium was important considering the massive use of internet had significant impacts on the enforcement of the law, personal rights, and the state’s independence in carrying out its rights and obligations. In addition, the COVID-19 pandemic had made it difficult to hold court hearings openly and in person, except with strict compliance with the heath protocol.
“Therefore, the use of the internet and information technology has become inevitable in ensuring that judicial activities run as they should. Any restriction to the access to the judiciary due to the pandemic can lead to inconceivable impacts,” he said.
Justice Anwar added that in the midst of the pandemic, state administrators’ attention and intention of upholding the Constitution as the basic law must be improved. One of the key issues of the Constitution as a basic law is the protection of the citizens’ constitutional rights, which must continue amid the pandemic. This is clearly stated in the 4th paragraph of the Preamble to the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia: that the goals and objectives of the state is, “…protects all Indonesian people and the entire land of Indonesia….”
“The Latin motto salus populi suprema lex esto, which means ‘let the good or the safety of the people be the supreme law,’ is in line with and has become the goal of the establishment of the state government as stated in the Constitution of Indonesia,” he said.
Justice Anwar’s presentation was followed by presentations by the President of the Constitutional Court of Moldova Domnica Manole, the President of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Serbia Snežana Marković, the Chairman of the Court of the Eurasian Economic Union Erna Airiyan, Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Taghreed Hikmet, Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Belarus Natallia Karpovich, Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of the Federal Republic of Germany Andreas L. Paulus, Justice of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Korea Kim Ki Young, Justice of the Constitutional Court of the Kingdom of Thailand Punya Udchachon, Justice of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Latvia Artūrs Kučs, and Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Tajikistan Jamshed Jamshedzoda.
In the third and last session on “State and State Power: Strengthened Responsibility to Society and the Individual,” Justice of the Constitutional Court of the Kingdom of Morocco Nadir Moumni; Judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine Galina Yurovskaya; Director of Regional Programme of GIZ in Central Asia Joerg Pudelka; Chairman of the International Union of Lawyers Andrei Trebkov; and Dean of the Faculty of Law, Economics and Administration of the University of Lorraine Pierre Tifin delivered their presentations.
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The symposium was officially concluded at 18.30 WIB or 17.30 Nur-Sultan time. The symposium proved that the enforcement of law, democracy, and human rights continued in the new normal and the digital era.
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The MKRI followed a series of routine events by the AACC—an internal symposium, Meeting of Secretaries-General (MSG), and Board of Members Meeting (BoMM) on Thursday and Friday, August 26-27, 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s events were organized by the Constitutional Council of Kazakhstan, president of the AACC, virtually.
Writer : Yuniar Widiastuti
Editor : Lulu Anjarsari P.
Translator : Yuniar Widiastuti (NL)
Translation uploaded on 8/31/2021 17:57 WIB
Disclaimer: The original version of the news is in Indonesian. In case of any differences between the English and the Indonesian versions, the Indonesian version will prevail.
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