Constitutional Justice Wahiduddin Adams delivering a lecture to new graduate students of the 2022/2023 Law Program of Kader Bangsa University of Palembang, Saturday (10/22/2021). Photo by Humas MK/M. Nur.

---

Saturday, October 22, 2022 | 07:47 WIB

JAKARTA (MKRI)—Constitutional Justice Wahiduddin Adams gave a lecture for the new students of the Graduate Program of Law of Kader Bangsa University of Palembang for 2022/2022 on Saturday, October 22, 2022 on site. He talked about the Constitutional Court’s position in Indonesia’s administration system. He said that before Article 1 paragraph (2) of the 1945 Constitution was amended, it stipulated that the sovereignty was in the hand of the people and be implemented by the People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR). After the amendment, the sovereignty is in the hand of the people and be implemented according to the Constitution.

After the amendment, he explained, there are no highest and high state institutions. Their positions are now determined by the functions and authorities granted by the 1945 Constitution. “The state institutions oversee each other and perform checks and balances,” he said.

He also said that the need for judicial review mechanism had been increasingly important, but was only implemented after the Reform, which resulted in the four-stage amendment of the 1945 Constitution. In the third stage of the amendment, Article 24C was formulated, which regulates the Constitutional Court. In order to implement that constitutional mandate, the Government and the House of Representatives (DPR) discussed the Constitutional Court Bill.

Justice Wahiduddin explained that the Court has the authority to adjudicate laws against the 1945 Constitution at the first and last instance with decisions that are final, to settle authority disputes between state institutions whose authorities are granted by the 1945 Constitution, to decide the dissolution of political parties, and to settle disputes over general election results. It is also obligated to decide the House’s opinion on an alleged violation of law committed by the president and/or vice president pursuant to the 1945 Constitution. 

The Court also has an additional authority to settle disputes over the certification of the final vote acquisition of the election of governors, regents, and mayors (regional election).

Writer        : Utami Argawati
Editor        : Lulu Anjarsari P.
Translator  : Yuniar Widiastuti (NL)

Translation uploaded on 10/26/2022 15:48 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.

---