Secretary-General M. Guntur Hamzah delivering a public lecture at the Law Faculty of Hasanuddin University, Thursday (4/28/2022). Photo by Humas MK.

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Thursday, April 28, 2022 | 13:32 WIB

JAKARTA, Public Relations—Secretary-General M. Guntur Hamzah delivered a public lecture for the Law Faculty of Hasanuddin University on Thursday, April 28, 2022 at Baruga Prof. DR. H. Baharuddin Lopa S.H. During the lecture, which was organized by virtual and onsite with strict adherence to the health protocol, Guntur talked about “The Judiciary and Modern Bureaucracy.”

Bureaucracy at the Constitutional Court cannot be separated from the definitaion of modern bureaucracy—a work system in state administration or organizations based on information, communication, and technology. This system allows for judicial work in the Constitutional Court to be carried out on target quickly with priority on integrity, dignity, and trust. In carrying out their bureaucratic duties, all of the Court’s employees must comply with the Metacord principles: meritocracy, empowerment, transparency, adaptability, collaboration, obedience, responsiveness, and digitization. This means that in running the bureaucracy, each individual must have a strong attachment and a common goal to create a good work environment and culture in order to advance the organization/institution by using technology appropriately.

Observing the development of the bureaucracy, especially in the judiciary, Guntur said it has entered the fourth generation where it is not oriented merely to achieving performance targets by substantively meeting public needs, but also to creating principles of good governance by using information technology. In line with this, based on the Red Light Theory and Green Light Theory by Carol Harlow and Richard Rawlings on the right to regulate state administration, the bureaucracy in the Constitutional Court, which is a judicial institution that serves justice for the constitutional rights of citizens, is guided by the Green Light Theory. In other words, he said, in its task of conducting constitutional justice using the Metacord system, the Court has implemented a modern judiciary.

“For example, in the Constitutional Court, there used to be summons officers to physically deliver letters to the [litigating] parties. After the use of technology, the summons officers became quality control [officers] in the distribution of files to the parties through notifications on device. So, this is what is called working smartly by creating a system that makes work easier,” Guntur said before Law Faculty Dean Farida Patittingi and moderator Dian Utami Mas Bakar, state administration law lecturer at the university, and 500 participants.

Next, Guntur talked about the benefits of ICT in bureaucracy, especially in the judiciary, which includes cutting costs and time; minimizing the practice of corruption, collusion, and nepotism; realizing an efficient, effective, transparent, and accountable work process; and improving the quality of public services. After his lecture, Guntur invited the participants to ask questions. 

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

Translation uploaded on 5/1/2022 09:21 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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