The Head of Legal Affair and Court Administration Bureau of the Constitutional Court, Fajar Laksono, receiving a delegation from the Coordinating Ministry for Law, Human Rights, Immigration, and Corrections (Kemenko Kumham Imipas) on Wednesday morning (01/21/2026). Photo by MKRI/Fauzan

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JAKARTA (MKRI) – The Constitutional Court (MK) received a delegation from the Coordinating Ministry for Law, Human Rights, Immigration, and Corrections (Kemenko Kumham Imipas) for an audience on Wednesday morning, January 21, 2026, in the Meeting Room of Building I of the Court. The hearing discussed strengthening coordination between state institutions to improve government compliance with the Court decisions, particularly judicial review decisions.

The delegation from the Coordinating Ministry, led by Robianto, Deputy Assistant for Legal Coordination and Restorative Justice. They were welcomed by Fajar Laksono, Head of the Legal Affairs and Court Administration Bureau of the Court, along with Senior Legal Analyst Syamsudin Noer, Head of the Facilities and Technical Services Division of the Court, Yossy Adriva, and the Head of the Legal and Administrative Division of the Court, along with several staff.

In his presentation, Robianto explained that, based on Presidential Decree No. 142 of 2024 on the Coordinating Ministry for Law, Human Rights, Immigration, and Corrections, the Coordinating Ministry has a strategic mandate to synchronize and coordinate the implementation of government affairs in the areas of law, human rights, immigration, and corrections. One of the main focuses currently being monitored is the government's compliance with the Court's decisions.

"Our function under the Deputy for Legal Coordination is to coordinate and synchronize, particularly regarding the government's compliance with the Court's decisions in judicial review cases," Robianto said. He added that this role has also been discussed with the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas) in the context of national legal development for the 2026 Fiscal Year.

Implementation of Constitutional Court Decisions

Robianto acknowledged that implementing the Court's decisions remains a challenge going forward. He stated that although many Court decisions have been issued, the government's compliance with them is often neglected.

"We all understand that many Constitutional Court decisions have been made. However, the government's compliance with these decisions is still not optimal," he said.

He emphasized that the executors of each Constitutional Court decision are the government and the relevant ministries directly involved in the decision. Robianto stated that, in practice, many Court decisions are rife with political dimensions, which influence their follow-up.

"I see that these decisions often contain political elements, so their implementation does not always proceed as intended," he said.

Therefore, the Coordinating Ministry for Law and Human Rights and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are striving to optimize their coordination and synchronization functions to ensure the mandate of the Court's decisions is fully implemented.

Responding to the presentation, Fajar Laksono emphasized the Coordinating Ministry for Law and Human Rights' role as an integral part of the Constitutional Court's ruling. He specifically highlighted Constitutional Court Decision No. 135/PUU-XXII/2024, which separates national and local elections, including regional head elections. "I want to know the government's response to Decision 135. Approximately six months after the ruling was read, I have not seen any real progress or data indicating the extent of follow-up at the government level," Fajar said.

Furthermore, Fajar quoted former Chief Justice Mahfud MD, who clearly distinguished between legal politics and the politicization of law.

"Follow-up on decisions is often viewed as a political issue and placed entirely within the political realm. However, if left entirely to political mechanisms, the debate returns to the fundamental question once posed by Prof. Mahfud MD: Does politics influence law more, does law limit politics, or do both influence each other equally? If the implementation of legal decisions, including Constitutional Court decisions, is entirely subject to political mechanisms, then these decisions have the potential to lose their meaning and binding force as final and binding legal products," he said.

Fajar assessed that the discourse developing in the public sphere actually points in a direction contrary to the Court's decision, such as the emergence of the idea that regional heads should be re-elected by the Regional People's Representative Council (DPRD). "In fact, the Constitutional Court has emphasized that regional heads are elected through general elections. If this decision is then returned entirely to political mechanisms, then the Court's decision has the potential to lose its meaning," he stressed.

During the hearing, Fajar also revealed the results of an academic study showing the still-low level of implementation of the Court's decision. Based on research published at the end of 2024, of the approximately 328 Constitutional Court granted decisions since the Court's establishment, approximately 63 decisions, or approximately 19–20 percent, have not been followed up by the House of Representatives (DPR) and the Government.

He then proposed the need for a joint mechanism involving the bureaucracy in the Constitutional Court, the House of Representatives (DPR), and the Government to monitor and evaluate the implementation of the Court decisions. He argued that although the nine constitutional justices are independent and should not influence one another, the bureaucracies in all three institutions are part of the same state ecosystem.

"Our duty as a supporting system is to support and assist in ensuring that court decisions, especially final and binding Constitutional Court decisions, are truly implemented," he explained.

Fajar hopes that through strengthened inter-institutional coordination and a structured monitoring mechanism, the number of unimplemented Court decisions can be minimized. "Our vision is to ensure that no more Constitutional Court decisions are ignored. Court decisions must have a real impact, especially for applicants whose constitutional rights have been violated by the enactment of the law," he concluded.

Author : Fauzan F.
Editor : N. Rosi.
Translator : N. Valentino Rahadityo (Rizky Kurnia Chaesario)

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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