Constitutional Justice Arief Hidayat speaking at a workshop on the procedural law for the 2024 General Election Results Dispute Resolution (PHPU) for Lemtari, Wednesday (4/12/2023) at the Pancasila and Constitution Education Center. Photo by MKRI/Bayu.

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BOGOR (MKRI) — The workshop on the procedural law for the 2024 General Election Results Dispute (PHPU) for Lembaga Tinggi Masyarakat Adat Republik Indonesia (Lemtari), an institution for Indonesian indigenous peoples, continued on Wednesday, April 12, 2023 at the Pancasila and Constitution Education Center in Cisarua, Bogor, West Java Province.

Constitutional Justice Arief Hidayat gave a lecture on nationalism before the indigenous peoples. He said law and democracy in Indonesia holds on to divine values, as the country observes Pancasila. “Indonesia is a Pancasila-based rule of law and democracy. It means that the law embodies divine values, as does democracy,” he said.

That is why, he added, the Constitutional Court would not stray away from the divine vales within Pancasila in examining, adjudicating, and resolving PHPU cases. These justices hold divine values in accordance with their faiths and religions.

Justice Arief also talked about human civilization, transformation from the hunting society to the agrarian society, then to the information society years later with the inception of computers, until today’s smart society in the 5.0 era, where extraordinary advancements have happened.

He also explained the 1990s’ military term VUCA—volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity—that describes the 5.0 society of today. Volatility suggests extraordinarily fast changes. Such dynamically, unpredictably, immeasurably-changing society requires good vision, objectives, and intent. Uncertainly requires carefulness.

At the end of his lecture, Justice Arief said that all Indonesians regardless of religion, ethnicity, language, and institution are united by the state’s vision and mission as enshrined in the Preamble to the 1945 Constitution.

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Next, Irfan Nur Rachman, an expert assistant to constitutional justice, explained that the petitioners, respondent, informants, and relevant parties in PHPU cases can be represented by a proxy based on a special power of attorney, and/or assisted by counsels after submitting a letter to the Court.

The petitioners could be political parties contesting in election, individual candidates for DPR/DPRD (House of Representatives/Regional Legislative Council) of a certain party who receives permission from the party’s chairman and secretary-general, and individual candidates of DPRA (Aceh Legislative Council) and DPRK (Aceh Regency Legislative Council).

The respondent is the KPU (General Elections Commission). Bawaslu (Elections Supervisory Body) and other institutions may be informants. Meanwhile, the relevant parties are other political parties who have a stake in the election or individual DPR/DPRD candidates of a certain party who receives permission from the party’s chairman and secretary-general.

By understanding the procedure for the 2024 PHPU, all litigating parties will contribute to the smooth PHPU proceedings. “As we know, PHPU proceedings in the Constitutional Court should be speedy and within the set deadline,” Irfan said.

The workshop, which take place on Monday to Thursday, April 10-13, 2023 at the Pancasila and Constitution Education Center, was attended by 130 Lemtari members. Constitutional justices, expert assistants to constitutional justices, substitute registrars, and other speakers delivered presentations at the event.

Author       : Bayu Wicaksono
Editor        : Lulu Anjarsari P.
Translator  : Yuniar Widiastuti (NL)

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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