A Constitutional Court indiscretion

Who knows what was in the mind of Constitutional Court Chief Justice Arief Hidayat when he asked the police to investigate allegations of falsification of signatures by advocates working in the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI). After all, the hearing to review the Police Law and the Road Transport and Public Transport Law that began two weeks ago was already underway.

It is unlikely that Arief would have misunderstood the police and the YLBHI were on opposite sides of the dispute. Asking the police to check the authenticity of signatures of the judicial review plaintiffs showed bias, something that should be far from the minds or the actions of fair-minded judges.

October 20, 2015

Who knows what was in the mind of Constitutional Court Chief Justice Arief Hidayat when he asked the police to investigate allegations of falsification of signatures by advocates working in the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI). After all, the hearing to review the Police Law and the Road Transport and Public Transport Law that began two weeks ago was already underway.

It is unlikely that Arief would have misunderstood the police and the Y

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