Constitutional Court
Testing the Waters
There are widespread rumors that former State Secretary Yusril Ihza Mahendra will be nominated as a candidate for the head of the Constitutional Court. Is the President testing the public’s reaction?
January 8, 2008
AT around 9pm on Tuesday in the second week of December last year, a Kijang car arrived at Cikeas. Although it was not that late, not one journalist caught wind of the arrival of the person in the car. Two men alighted from the vehicle and hurried into the private residence of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY).
“At the time, we did indeed want to avoid any publicity,” said Yusron Ihza Mahendra, Deputy Chair of the House of Represe
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