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IL News 025/2017
The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Indonesia together with Leimena Institute organised an event named “Socialisation to Improve the Understanding of Civil Constitutional Rights for Leaders dan Members of the Inter-faiths and Beliefs Young Leaders Organisation”
This event took place at Pusdiklat (Centre for Education for Pancasila and Constitution), Cisarua from 2 – 6 October 2017. On the fourth day, October 5th, 07.30 – 15.00 Western Indonesia Time, this event was run in parallel through video conference in 10 cities in Indonesia—in Bengkulu, Kendari, Purwekorto, Mataram, Gorontalo, Manado, Banda Aceh, Bangkalan-Madura, Jayapura and Tarakan.
The video conference had three sessions. First, “Experience in Serving the Nation” by Dr Alwi Shihab. Second, “The Operational System of the State according to the 1945 Constitution” by Dr. Janedjri M Gaffar, M.Si. Third session, “The Guarantee of Indonesia Citizen Constitutional Right according to the 1945 Constitution” by Drs. Fajar Laksono, S.Sos, M.H.
Participants, both those in Bogor and in the Video Conferences in 10 cities were very enthusiastic. They poured out lots of questions during Questions and Answers time. It is not just answering questions by the speakers, but half of the session was also for panel discussions.
Note: Participants of Video Conference, School of Law Gorontalo State University.
Participants from the Video Conference were given more time to raising their questions. In the first Q&A Session, four Schools of Law from Bengkulu, Syiah Kuala, Borneo and Gorontalo were given the opportunity to ask questions from Dr Shihab’s session. Below were some of their questions:
Ilham Muttahari (Syiah Kuala University)
“How to resolve conflicts caused by the diversity in Indonesia; and what were the concrete solutions from the academics in handling these conflicts?”
Ari Yoga Pasambuna (Gorontalo University)
“What is your opinion regarding the Constitutional Court’s decision to abolish UU No. 1/PNPS/1965 about Preventing the Misuse and/or Blasphemy of Religion?
The second Q&A session, six other Schools of Law take turn to raise questions from Dr Gaffar’s session.
Daniel Aritonang (Borneo Tarakan University)
“It seemed that the speaker, Dr Gaffar, assumed that we shouldn’t just blame the length of period of presidency of President Suharto, the root of the problem was that we have multiple-interpretations of the 1945 Constitution during that time. My question is, people have many assumptions, “how could a person run for the candidacy for so many times”. What will you suggest to be the solution for this case?”
Answers by Dr. Janedjri M. Gaffar:
“If we learn the original script of the 1945 Constitution, the script affirmed that the presidential term is 5 years. This is what was “normative” in the original script. With this normative statement, in my opinion, we can’t blame President Suharto because that statement could have multiple-interpretations. For this reason, we decided to amend the Constitution.”
Note: Participants of Video Conference, School of Law Cendrawasih University.
Participants were very appreciative and satisfied with the speakers. They all were experienced and engrossed in their fields. The Vi-Con was ended by taking group photo.