Constitutional Justices Arief Hidayat and Enny Nurbaningsih giving public lectures to law students of Universitas Sebelas Maret, Surakarta, Friday (12/3/2021). Photo by Humas MK/Ifa.

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Friday, December 3, 2021 | 15:44 WIB

SOLO, Public Relations—Constitutional Justices Arief Hidayat and Enny Nurbaningsih gave public lectures at a collaborative event on “The Role and Challenges of the Constitutional Court in Realizing Democratic Law and Politics” with Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS), Friday, December 3, 2021. As many as 70 undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate students attended the lecture at the hall of Building III of the Law Faculty of UNS, SOLO.

In her lecture, Justice Enny said that Indonesia is a unique country with a very diverse population that have a large number of islands, ethnicities, regional languages. This, she said, informed the legal and political democratic challenges that it must face, one being the massive and inevitable technological developments that touch on people from all social status. Therefore, the community must respond to them wisely.

“We are a very plural country, so in order to become a great country, there needs to be a formula to create strong legal instruments. Therefore, it is necessary to increase public literacy in law. This is because the spread of information without boundaries leads to disinformation. Meanwhile, public awareness and legal culture is still low,” she said.

The development of national law requires state goals that take into account the nation’s diversity. Thus, all elements of the nation need to work hand in hand to organize legal institutions as well as to structure legal substance, legal awareness and culture, and legal facilities and infrastructure. In realizing these goals, Indonesia has the Long-Term Development Plan (RPJP) 2005-2025 and the National Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) 2019-2024, which are part of the strategy to build law in an institutionalized manner.

“In relation to the development of law, the Constitutional Court amid an unknown pandemic continues to prepare itself to reinforce the handling of legislative, presidential, and regional elections. The Court’s policy directions and strategies of 2020-2024 are strengthening the Court’s authorities, modernizing the judicial system, strengthening the Court as an anti-corruption zone,” Justice Enny stressed.

Concept of State Administration

Meanwhile, Constitutional Justice Arief Hidayat explained the concept of state administration. He explained the forms of government: one based on divine sovereignty (theocracy), popular sovereignty (democracy), legal supremacy (nomocracy), and environmental supremacy for sustainable development (ecocracy).

He then provided an illustration of democratic consolidation. The Soviet Union, he said, fell and split into several countries. This also happened to Middle Eastern countries. In these countries, the democratic consolidation process has not yet ended. Meanwhile, in Indonesia it occurred from the authoritarian rule to the Reform era.

“Fortunately, Indonesia’s change from an authoritarian government to the Reform allows it to be categorized as a large independent, sovereign country, and until now the collisions within are not as big as those in other countries that have experienced the same thing. Even though the people are diverse and the territory vast, the democratic consolidation went quite well,” he added.

Writer        : Sri Pujianti
Editor        : Lulu Anjarsari P.
Translator  : Yuniar Widiastuti (NL)

Translation uploaded on 12/14/2021 13:51 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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