Secretary-General M. Guntur Hamzah (center) closing the technical assistance program on Legal Drafting Batch III for constitutional and administrative law lectures virtually, alongside the Director of Regional Regulation Planning Facilitation and Training Nuryanti Widyastuti (right) and the Acting Head of the Pancasila and Constitution Education Center Imam Margono, Friday (9/10/2021). Photo by Humas MK/Teguh.

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Friday, September 10, 2021 | 23:26 WIB

JAKARTA, Public Relations—Secretary-General M. Guntur Hamzah officially closed the technical assistance program (bimtek) on Legal Drafting Batch III on Friday, September 10, 2021. The Constitutional Court (MK) collaborated with the Ministry of Law and Human Rights and the Association of Constitutional and Administrative Law Lectures of Indonesia (APHTN-HAN) to organize the program.

Before 100 participants who attended the program virtually, Guntur said that the program was aimed at improving the competencies of constitutional and administrative law lectures and the Court’s staff members.

Legal drafting, he said, not only requires knowledge but also artistic sense. He hoped the program would produce competent legal drafters.

“Besides knowledge, artistic sense is also needed by legal drafters because it concerns formulating spoken language in the community into formal legal style,” Guntur said.

The participants were also given the opportunity to talk about their experience attending the program. Aidul Fitriciada Azhari gave a testimony that he joined the program to learn. He also said that it was important and beneficial for constitutional and administrative law lectures.

“The program gave encouragement. Many things were obtained from this activity and all of them were very useful,” he said.

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The Constitutional Court (MK) collaborated with the Ministry of Law and Human Rights and the Association of Constitutional and Administrative Law Lectures of Indonesia (APHTN-HAN) to organize the program, which took place on September 6-10, 2021 virtually. 

The program presented experts in the field, who delivered 11 materials, including lawmaking process, constitutional interpretation, procedural law on judicial review, types and hierarchy of legislation, harmonization of legislation, academic text writing, legal drafting, as well as legal drafting practice and presentation of the results.

Writer        : Utami Argawati
Editor        : Nur R.
Translator  : Yuniar Widiastuti (NL)

Translation uploaded on 9/22/2021 14:54 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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