The MPR's New Clothes?
A bright and shiny new court will handle constitutional issues and interpretation of laws passed by parliament. Its creation means the Supreme Court's position as the summit of the judiciary has been split and what authority it had to carry out judicial reviews has been pulled.
October 9, 2001
More than half a century after independence, Indonesia's 1945 Constitution remains a highly ambiguous document. The recent decision by Ad Hoc Committee I of the working body of the supreme People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) perhaps is proof. It is preparing the third amendment to the constitution. It did not choose to talk about dividing authority between organs of state based on the division of powers between the executive, legislative and judic...