The Supreme Court’s acting head of Personnel Bureau as well as senior human resources assessor Supatmi benchmarking with the Constitutional Court, Monday (5/20/2024). Photo by MKRI/Panji.

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JAKARTA (MKRI) — The Constitutional Court (MK) welcomed a delegation from the Supreme Court (MA) on the 10th floor of the Court’s main building on Monday, May 20, 2024. The Supreme Court intends to conduct benchmarking related to the authority of the Court’s personnel development officer (PPK) as the secretariat leader in state institutions based on the Law No. 20 of 2023 on the State Civil Apparatus (ASN Law).

“Indeed, the authority is almost similar because the Constitutional Court also has Registrar’s Office and Secretariat staffs, including what was mentioned earlier, technical staffs. The difference with the Supreme Court is that (the Supreme Court) manages a greater number (of staff),” said the Supreme Court’s acting head of Personnel Bureau as well as senior human resources assessor Supatmi in her opening remarks.

She explained that her bureau was working on an urgent draft regarding the Supreme Court’s chief justice decree on the delegation of authority of the chief of personnel development officer to the intermediate high leadership officials and chief justices of the court of appeals within the Supreme Court. For this reason, they intended to seek for the Constitutional Court’s recommendations on the PPK’s authority, coordination and intersection with the Constitutional Court’s PPK’s and chief justice’s authority. They also would like to find out about the obstacles the Constitutional Court’s PPK’s faced in carrying out their duties.

Based on the Supreme Chief Justice Decree No. 125 of 2009, authority in the personnel department and all judicial bodies lies with the Supreme Court Chief Justice. The authority for appointment, dismissal, temporary dismissal, transfer, promotion, and advancement for technical and non-technical staffs and subordinate judicial bodies is partially delegated to the Supreme Court secretary, director-general, head of agencies, and chief justices of the court of appeals.

Meanwhile, the head of the Human Resources and Organization Department of the Constitutional Court Sri Handayani stated that referring to the ASN Law, which stipulates that the leadership of the institution’s secretariat can become the PPK, the Constitutional Court’s PPK is the secretary-general. Meanwhile, the chief justice, deputy chief, and constitutional justices focus on handling cases.

“Thus, various personnel matters are fully entrusted to the Secretariat-General with all its secretariat apparatuses,” she said.

However, she mentioned that since the Constitutional Court Decision No. 121/PUU-XX/2022 on the material judicial review of the Constitutional Court Law regarding the retirement age of its chief registrar, deputy registrar, and substitute registrar—originally 65 years old but was changed to 67—there have been other consequences, i.e. the registrar became a functional position, so their supervision is directly under the constitutional justices. This required the Court to seek new arrangements of performance appraisals or anything related to the personnel affairs of the registrars. Sri said the Court may consider taking turns to benchmark with the Supreme Court regarding the relevant personnel regulations.

Besides Supatmi, the Supreme Court delegation who attended the meeting include Director of Technical Personnel Development of General Courts at the Directorate-General of General Courts Body Hasanudin, secretary of the Directorate-General of General Courts Kurnia Arry Soelaksono, Director of Technical Personnel Development of Religious Courts at the Directorate-General of Religious Courts Candra Boy Seroza, secretary of the Directorate-General of Religious Courts Arief Hidayat, Director of Technical Personnel Development and Administration of Military Courts at the Directorate-General of Military Courts and State Administration First Marshal Edi Wuryanto, and their subordinates.

The Constitutional Court’s official joining the meeting besides Sri Handayani were head of the Center for Research, Case Review, and Library Management (Puslitka) Pan Mohamad Faiz; head of the Legal Affairs and Registrar Administration Bureau Fajar Laksono; head of the Bureau of Planning and Finance Tatang Garjito; and Inspector Kurniasih Panti Rahayu.

Before closing the meeting, Supatmi stated that further discussion was needed. “From this meeting, [we found that] we [the Supreme Court and Constitutional Court] have duties to complete immediately, so to complement and cover each other’s duties, we should hold a second meeting,” she said.

Author              : Mimi Kartika
Editor               : Lulu Anjarsari P.
Translators        : Putri Ratnasari/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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