Chief Justice Anwar Usman congratulating Tundjung Herning Sitabuana for her law professorship at Tarumanagara University, Saturday (7/2/2022) at the auditorium of Tarumanagara University. Photo by Humas MK/Ifa.

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Wednesday, July 6, 2022 | 14:51 WIB

JAKARTA, Public Relations—The Constitutional Court’s (MK) Chief Justice Anwar Usman attended the appointment of Prof. Dr. Tundjung Herning Sitabuana, S.H., C.N., M.Hum. as a law professor at Tarumanagara University on Saturday, July 2 at the 8th floor auditorium of Campus 1 of Tarumanagara University alongside Constitutional Justices Wahiduddin Adams, Suhartoyo, other constitutional justices, and Secretary-General M. Guntur Hamzah.

“The Proclamation of Independence of the Republic of Indonesia on August 17, 1945 was the beginning of the founding of our beloved country, the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia, a republic with popular sovereignty based on Pancasila and the 1945 Constitution,” Tundjung said in her remarks on “Strengthening the Determination and Spirit to Realize State Goals Based on Pancasila and the 1945 Constitution (An Overview from Legal and Political Perspectives)” at her appointment as a permanent law professor.

The purpose of the establishment of the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia (NKRI) as mandated in paragraph four of the Preamble to the 1945 Constitution, Tundjung said, is to protect the entire Indonesian nation and the entire homeland and to promote public welfare, to educate the nation’s life, and to participate in world order based on freedom, eternal peace, and social justice.

“Meanwhile, Pancasila in relation to the state goals serves to describe the state goals, which must lead to the realization of a just and prosperous society in accordance with the values and spirit of Pancasila,” she said before officials of ministries/agencies as well as faculty members and students of Tarumanagara University, who attended the event online or onsite.

Another function of Pancasila, she added, is a process of achieving state goals that must continue to pay attention to and realize the dimensions that reflect the character and characteristics of Pancasila.

National Main Duty

Tundjung said efforts to realize the state goals are the main national duty, thus are a responsibility shared by all components of the nation—state administrators and all citizens alike.

Tundjung Herning Sitabuana was born in Semarang on September 7, 1958 to (late) Toeloes Koesoemaboedaja and R. Ay Koentjarawati. She studied at SD Pendrikan Tengah II Semarang (1970), SMP Negeri I Semarang (1973), SMA Negeri I Semarang (1976), the Law Faculty of Diponegoro University (1981). She attended the Notary Program I at Diponegoro University (1990), then obtained a Master of Law at Diponegoro University (2001), and finally a Doctor of Law at Diponegoro University (2011).

From her marriage to Constitutional Justice Arief Hidayat, she was blessed with two children—Adya Paramita Prabandari, a law lecturer at Diponegoro University, and Airlangga Surya Nagara, a law lecturer at Sebelas Maret University.

Tundjung was appointed head of law laboratory at the University of Semarang (2004-2008), member of drafting team of the feasibility study/advocate specialist of the Law Faculty of Diponegoro University (2005). She is currently a law lecturer at Tarumanagara University.

Writer        : Nano Tresna Arfana
Editor        : Lulu Anjarsari P.
Translator  : Yuniar Widiastuti (NL)

Translation uploaded on 7/7/2022 10:57 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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