News Photos (7/2014)

IL News 024/2014

Institute Leimena collaborating with Petra Christian University’s Executive Student Body Surabaya, headed by Carolina Halim, organized a training in Development of Constitutional Perspective for 12 committee members for Petra’s Executive Student Body, taking a study case from the Bill for Zakat Management. This event was held on Friday, November 7th, 2014 from 4.30pm to 8.30pm. Through this training, the Executive Student Body members were encouraged in learning to think analytically and critically in viewing several chapters in the Zakat Management Bill to see how far the Bill is compatible with the Indonesian Constitution (UUD 1945). This Zakat Management Bill has already been legalized as a formal law in UU no. 23/2011 about Zakat Management. The training was facilitated by Budi Setiamarga and Matius Ho.

A public lecture with the topic of “Citizens in Indonesia’s Transformation” was held on Saturday, November 8th 2014, from 09.00 am to 11.30 am in Ciputra University Surabaya in relation to the Citizenship Course. This public lecture, which was attended by around 250 students, discussed the historical development of ideas about Indonesia as a nation and how modern ideas, such as equality and independence, could finally be transpired in the Indonesian Constitution Preamble. The public lecture also talked about the Constitution Amendment and how it largely impacts the life of Indonesian citizens. The importance of citizen’s participation in building the economy and the regional government’s performance was delivered with a case study about Northern and Southern Italy. The case study was a result of a research by Professor Robert Putnam from Harvard University, USA. This has been an interesting case study showing how important citizen’s participation is in building the society. Simple examples about how citizen’s participation can be done were shown in several video clips. This lecture was delivered by Matius Ho and Budi Setiamarga.