The Future of the Constitutional Court: Proceedings of the Conference of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Indonesia (Indonesian)

The 2013 National Conference on Constitutional Democracy was an initiative of the SETARA Institute to assess the performance of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Indonesia, which had been in existence for 10 years since its establishment in August 2003. This Constitutional Democracy Conference was attended by the Chairman of the People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR RI), Drs. H. Sidarto Danusubroto, S.H.; the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Germany to Indonesia, Timor-Leste, and ASEAN, Dr. Georg Witschel; the Ambassador of Turkey, Prof. Dr. Saldi Isra, S.H.; MPA (Professor of Constitutional Law at Andalas University), Dr. Benny K. Harman, S.H. (Member of the Indonesian House of Representatives, Expert in Constitutional Law), Dr. Simon Butt (Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, Australia), and Dr. Ronald Faber, LLM. (Constitutional Service of the Federal Chancellery of Austria, Vienna, Austria). A total of 35 constitutional law scholars and human rights activists, as well as 25 presenters of selected papers, shared their ideas and thoughts on how to shape the future of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Indonesia, particularly following the arrest of Constitutional Court Chief Justice M. Akil Muchtar.