Deputy Chief Justice Saldi Isra and Secretary General Heru Setiawan and the Acting Director of the Indonesian National Library, Adin Bindar, signing symbolically at the Court Book Launch and Constitutional Literacy Talkshow, Monday (12/16/2024) at the National Library Auditorium. Photo by MKRI/Ifa.

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JAKARTA (MKRI) – As an effort to increase public literacy, the Court (MK) held the 2024 Constitutional Court Launch and Talkshow on Constitutional Literacy on Monday, December 16, 2024, at the National Library Auditorium, Jakarta. Deputy Chief Justice Saldi Isra opened this event which was carried out in person and online.

In his remarks, Deputy Chief Justice Saldi said that this launch event was a form of commitment to mobilize internally, in addition to completing work. Since 2019, this joint commitment has been going on from year to year, written by employees within the Registrar's Office and the Secretariat General of the Constitutional Court. He said he didn’t imagine that he would launch 38 books because the Court was faced with a very tough job from March to August 2024, namely handling disputes over the results of the 2024 General Election. "This year we decided on 158 PUU decisions while deciding on the Pilkada disputes that were already in front of us," said Deputy Chief Justice Saldi.

Deputy Chief Justice Saldi hoped that with the limited number of people within the Registrar's Office and Secretariat General, the Court will still be able to continue writing. "Next year, hopefully more books will be launched to the public. "At least the expert assistant to the constitutional justice will produce one book," hoped Deputy Chief Justice Saldi.

Meanwhile,  The Acting Director of the National Library of Indonesia, represented by the Deputy for Library Resources Development, Adin Bindar, said that in accordance with the mandate of the 1945 Constitution, every citizen has the right to participate in making the nation's life more intelligent—one of which is by carrying out this event. Adin added that literacy culture is important to move towards a knowledgeable and creative society. Apart from that, the functions and duties of the National Library are not only limited to serving readers and users. However, he continued, the library is an open space to increase creativity. Library transformation is an effort to educate and build a reading culture. "We interpret this as one of the strategic steps to create high awareness among Indonesian people," said Adin.

Then, Adin expressed his very high appreciation for the efforts initiated by the Court through papers or books for students and the public as well as for the National Library to increase legal dissemination.

Chief Justice of the Court for the 2003 – 2008 period, Jimly Asshiddiqie, who gave the keynote speech, stated that this event was important so that justices were familiar with writing, reading and debating activities. People who are capable of substantive debate are familiar with the culture of reading and writing. "This must become a culture in the judiciary," he said.

 

Literacy Talk Show

As a series of events, a Literacy Talkshow was also held with resource persons, namely Constitutional Justice for the 2015 – 2020 period and Professor of Law at Udayana University, I Dewa Gede Palguna, Professor of Law at UII, Ni'matul Huda, and Chief Editor of KOMPAS, Sutta Dharmasaputra.

Kompas Editor-in-Chief, Sutta Dharmasaputra, explained that disinformation is one of the top problems in the world. If we talk about disinformation, it can be fought with literacy. According to him, MK is going against the mainstream by launching a book because now social media provides simple things. MK actually launched books—which he called a complex thing—in this era of social media. "Prolonging with simple social media actually makes people forget complex things. "Even though life is a complex thing," he said.

In addition, in her presentation on democracy, UII Professor of Law Ni'matul Huda explained that the large number of judicial review showed that the legislative process was not going well. Parliament has not provided an enlightening color in the context of democracy.

"The Court's position is influential in building democracy as in Decisions 60 and 70. Democracy in Indonesia must begin to organize parliamentary institutions. "Because he/she was elected by the people," explained Ni'matul.

For your information, MK has launched 188 books from 2019 to 2024. In 2024, MK will launch 38 books from 49 authors. The following are the authors and titles of the books launched;

1.   Saldi Isra, et al., with a book entitled "Women's Quotas in MK Decisions";

2.   Daniel Yusmic P. FoEkh, et al., with a book entitled "Theory of State: History, Nature, Goals and Forms of the State";

3.   Daniel Yusmic P. FoEkh with a book entitled " Theory of State: Concept, Development and Application in Indonesia";

4.   Ridwan Mansyur with a book entitled "Restorative Justice (Relations with National Culture and Religion, Regulations, Practices, and Reforms in Judicial Institutions)";

5.   Jimly Asshiddiqie with a book entitled "Civil Emergency and Exception Law";

6.    Bagir Manan with a book entitled "Amendments to the 1945 Constitution";

7.   Bagir Manan with a book entitled "Human Rights and Constitutional Complaints";

8.   Heru Setiawan with a book entitled "Digital Transformation (Procedural Law for Judicial Review of Constitutional Court Laws";

9.   Muhidin with a book entitled "The Independence of the Constitutional Court in the Midst of the Conflict between the Principles of Nemo  Judex Propria Causa and Ius Curia Novit in the Judicial Review at Constitutional Court";

10. Fajar Laksono Suroso with a book entitled "Constitutional Court Decision Changing the Election Law (Interpretation, Argumentation and Ratio Decidendi)";

11. Nanang Subekti with a book entitled "Interpretation of Economic Democracy in the Constitution (Principles of Economic Democracy in the Interpretation of the 1945 Constitution)";

12. Anna Triningsih and Achmad Edi Subiyanto with a book entitled "The State and Judicial Power";

13. Yuni Sandrawati with a book entitled "Audit Implementation of  Transparency and Accountability in Judicial Institutions";

14. Yuni Sandrawati and Iman Sudjudi with a book entitled "Everything is Possible with Independent Umrah: A Guide to Preparing for Independent Umrah";

15. Irfan Nur Rahman with a book entitled "Dialectics of Natural Resource Management: Background, Ideas and Conceptions of the Right to Control the State"

16. Oly Viana Agustine with a book entitled "Development of the Rule of Law in Theory and Practice";

17. Oly Viana Agustine with a book entitled "Criminal Law Politics: Theory and Practice in the Constitutional Court";

18. Mardian Wibowo with a book entitled "Relations of Power, State and Law";

19. Dewi Nurul Savitri with a book entitled "Education Budget in the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia";

20. Wilma Silalahi with a book entitled "Emergency of Democracy";

21. Helmi Kasim with a book entitled "Settlement of Investment Disputes Through ICSID Arbitration";

22. Luthfi Widagdo Eddyono, et al., with a book entitled "A Glimpse Of Constitutional Democracy";

23. Abdul Ghoffar with a book entitled "Legal Philosophy: Concepts, History, Law, Justice and Ethics";

24. Abdul Ghoffar with a book entitled "Constitutional Law: Theory, Concepts and Practices of Indonesian Constitutionalism";

25. Arshinta Fitridiyani with a book entitled "Constitutional Court Decisions as the Guardian of the Constitution and Democracy";

26.  Ardiansyah Salim with a book entitled "Automata: Artificial Intelligence and Robots in a Sociological and Economic Perspective";

27.  Mohammad Mahrus Ali, et al., with a book entitled "Protection of the   Constitutional Rights of Coastal Communities in Indonesia";

28.  Ananthia Ayu Devitasari and Paulus Rudy Calvin Sinaga with a book entitled "Indonesian Agrarian Law: Foundations, History and Interpretation of the Constitution";

29. Rima Yuwana Yustikaningrum, et al., with a book entitled "Constitutionality of Age Limits: Conception, Regulation, Interpretation, Comparison and Controversy";

30. Titis Anindyajati with a book entitled "The Right to Freedom of  Opinion in the Constitution";

31. Syamsudin Noer with a book entitled "Law and its Amendment   Aspects";

32. Zaka Firma Aditya with a book entitled "Beyond Constitutional Protection: Ideas of Constitutional Complaints for Inclusive Justice in Indonesia";

33. Siwi Kartikasari with a book entitled "E-Minutation in E-Court: Electronic-Based Constitutional Case File Management";

34. Mery Christian Putri and Siti Rosmalina Nurhayati with a book entitled "Introduction to Legal English: Getting to Know Legal English";

35. Suryo Gilang Romadlon with a book entitled "Politics, Political Parties and Elections (Actual Development and Dynamics)";

36. Muhamad Doni Ramdani with a book entitled "Development of Judicial Review in the Indonesian Constitutional System";

37. Lulu Anjarsari Purwaningtyas and Hani Adhani with a book entitled "Reviewing the Constitutionality of the Capital of the State"; And

38. Adam Ilyas with a book entitled "Indonesia's New Criminal Law:  Illustration of the General Rules of the New Criminal Code". (*)

 

Author         : L. A. P.
Editor          : Lulu Anjarsari P.
Translator    : Donny Yuniarto (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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