Secretary-General M. Guntur Hamzah delivering a speech at a focus group discussion on “Strengthening Modern Judicial Technology at the Constitutional Court,” Wednesday (9/14/2022) at the Constitutional Court. Photo by Humas MK/Hamdi.
Wednesday, September 14, 2022 | 15:45 WIB
JAKARTA (MKRI) — In order to draft a grand design on constitutional judicial technology, the Constitutional Court (MK) held a focus group discussion (FGD) on “Strengthening Modern Judicial Technology in the Constitutional Court” both on site and online on Wednesday, September 14, 2022. Eighty-one structural and functional officials representing of the Constitutional Court and 9 participants from PT Daya Makara of the University of Indonesia (UI) were in attendance.
Secretary-General M. Guntur Hamzah said in his remarks that the Court was always seeking to adapt to technological developments.
“Steve Jobs emphasized that we become close with technology. Don’t try to fight technology. Anyone who fights technology will be crushed by it, will be left behind by technological developments. Not wanting to change is no different from ancient humans, but if someone changes, they are adaptive to the development of society. This is a source of pride because the Constitutional Court has had a foundation of electronic-based government systems, under its vision of being a modern judicial institution,” he said.
He added that during adaptation to technological developments, the Court needs a grand design, which is also part of transparency and accountability as a judicial institution. “Therefore, we have to make this grand design. We have to show that all work methods in the Constitutional Court are carried out in a fair, transparent, and accountable manner. That is the most important thing, the results can have pros and cons,” he explained.
Modern and Trusted Justice
Meanwhile, in his report, Head of the Center for Information and Communication Technology Sigit Purnomo said that since its inception, the Court had been designed to be a modern and trusted institution. The modern paradigm means all activities of the Constitutional Court are carried out effectively and efficiently by using information and communication technology, in the sense that its performance is based on actual-progressive mindsets and actions while leaving conventional mindsets in administering justice. Technological innovations is a necessity in supporting integrated justice systems and practices.
“Currently, the Constitutional Court already has a number of ICT applications and infrastructure to support the implementation of technical administration tasks and functions with a modern and reliable justice system, namely the Judiciary Administration System (JAS) and the General Administration System (GAS),” he said.
He added that the modernization of ICT instruments in JAS and GAS for the sake of a modern and trusted judicial institution needs the support of strategic policy directions in a grand design, which consists of the Architecture and Plan Map for a five-year period in accordance with the mandate of the Presidential Regulation No. 95 of 2018 on Electronic-Based Government Systems.
He further emphasized that grand design is based on three philosophies: the I5 judicial principles of independence, integrity, impartiality, integration, and interconnection; ETERNAL (Ecosystem of Technology and Modern Judiciary and Digital Culture Transformation); and SSO (single sign-on).
Digital Governance
In the first session, Cahyono Tri Birowo, Assistant Deputy for Policymaking and Coordination of the Implementation of Electronic-Based Government System (SPBE) of the Ministry of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform, said that the digital ecosystem consists of various stakeholders, systems, and environments that support each other by empowering people through the use of digital services to access services, interact in society, and pursue economic opportunities.
He said the digital ecosystem consists of various stakeholders, systems and environments that support each other by empowering people through the use of digital technology to access services, interact in society, and pursue economic opportunities.
The prognosis for achieving the SPBE Index is if the central agencies and regional governments implement the SPBE using the principle of national integration through the SPBE Architecture. The SPBE has a vision of realizing integrated and comprehensive electronic-based services to achieve high-performance bureaucracy and public services. Its mission is to organize and strengthen the organization and governance of an integrated electronic-based government system; develop electronic-based public services that are integrated, comprehensive, and reach the wider community; build an integrated, safe, and reliable ICT foundation; and build competent and innovative human resources based on ICT.
Meanwhile, Budi Yuwono, a lecturer and senior researcher in information technology strategy, policy, and management at the Faculty of Computer Science of the University of Indonesia, who talked about “IT Governance in Modern Judicial Technology Ecosystems and Digital Culture Transformation (ETERNAL) to achieve Independence, Integrity, Impartiality, Integration, and Interconnection (I5)” said the SPBE index assessment is to measure the maturity level of IT utilization in the administration of electronic-based justice.
He said the ICT architecture serves to document agreements between stakeholders on the role of ICT in achieving mission and responding to organizational challenges.
SDI Implementation Steps and Strategies
the Director for Law and Regulations of National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas) R.M. Dewo Broto Joko Putranto explained that Indonesia’s one-data policy was contained in Presidential Decree No. 39 of 2009 on One Data Indonesia (SDI). SDI is intended to regulate the governance of data generated by central and regional agencies to support planning, implementation, evaluation, and development.
In carrying out strategic steps and following up on the implementation of SDI, he added, the Constitutional Court needed to draw up a regulation of the chief justice on the implementation of One Data Indonesia within the scope of the Constitutional Court. In addition, it also needs to appoint and establish a work unit that will carry out the tasks and functions as its data trustee, data producer, and data forum through a decree of the chief justice.
Artificial Intelligence
Furthermore, Indrabayu, head of Hasanuddin University’s Artificial Intelligence and Multimedia Laboratory, said reliable artificial intelligence can be realized if humans can act as supervisors through governance mechanisms such as human-in-the-loop (HITL)—where human intervention can exist in every decision cycle of artificial intelligence systems, human-on-the-loop (HOTL)—where human intervention can exist during the system design cycle and monitoring of system operation, and human-in-command (HIC)—where it is possible to oversee the overall activity of an artificial intelligence (AI) system and to decide when and how to use it.
He said some things that cannot be replaced by AI, such as effective communication, understanding feelings, choosing legal strategies that are relevant to human needs and wisdom.
Meanwhile, Ismail Fahmi, CEO of PT Media Kernels Indonesia and founder of Drone Emprit, discussed the application of big data analytics technology to the Ecosystem of Technology and Modern Judiciary and Digital Culture Transformation (ETERNAL) for the sake of independence, integrity, impartiality, integration, and interconnection (I5).
The Constitutional Court as a judicial institution that carries out technical tasks of constitutional justice and must also develop the electronic-based judicial system (SPBE) for clean, effective, transparent, and accountable governance as well as quality and reliable public services.
The FGD was expected to provide more insights in the preparation of the Constitutional Court’s technology grand design document in 2022, including updating the latest information related to policies, guidelines, and technical standards for implementing the national SPBE architecture, as well as to provide more insights on the constraints and obstacles to its implementation in central agencies; policies, guidelines, and technical standards related to One Data Indonesia and its application in the administration of an electronic-based justice system; recommendations for the use of the national SPBE infrastructure, including the National Data Center Service along with the constraints and obstacles currently being faced as well as alternative options.
Writer : Utami Argawati
Editor : Lulu Anjarsari P.
Translator : Yuniar Widiastuti (NL)
Translation uploaded on 12/27/2022 15:42 WIB
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