The Indonesian Constitutional Court : The Evolution of a Judicial Institution.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Butt, Simon.

Series:

Brill's Asian Law Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civics, Indonesian.

Judicial process (Islamic law).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (408 pages)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : BRILL, 2026.

Summary:

This book examines the Indonesian Constitutional Court's 20-year evolution, focusing on the Court's decision-making practices.The book explores how the Court makes law and has developed a de facto system of precedent.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title Page

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

About This book

Relationship to The Constitutional Court and Democracy in Indonesia

Case referencing

Acknowledgments and dedication

Figures and Tables

Figures

Tables

Commonly Cited Constitutional Provisions

Constitutional Court Cases Cited, with Full References

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

Full References to Statutes Cited

Chapter 1 Introducing the Court

1 The Constitutional Court's Establishment

2 Jurisdiction

2.1 Formal Review

3 Caseload

3.1 Common Challenges

3.2 Human Rights

3.2.1 Legal Certainty

3.2.2 Equality and Discrimination

3.2.3 Freedom of Expression and Association

3.2.4 Other Rights

3.3 The Preamble

3.4 Rule of Law

3.5 Article 33

4 The Judges

4.1 Prerequisites

4.2 Appointments

4.3 Challenging Appointments

4.4 Dismissal and Tenure

4.4.1 Tenure

5 The Constitutional Court's Performance

5.1 Efficiency

5.2 Transparency and Engagement

5.3 Political Environment

5.4 Ruling on Its Own Interests

6 Judicial Misconduct

6.1 Arsyad Sanusi

6.2 Akil Mochtar

6.3 Arief Hidayat

6.4 Patrialis Akbar

6.5 Guntur Hamzah

6.6 The Aftermath of Decision 90

Chapter 2 Access to the Court

1 Jurisdiction

2 Standing Rules

2.1 The First Limb: Applicant Categories

2.1.1 Individuals

2.1.2 Foreign Individuals

2.1.3 Representatives of Other Individuals

2.1.4 Customary Law Communities

2.1.5 Companies and Their Representatives

2.1.5.1 Foreign Directors of Indonesian Corporations

2.1.6 NGOS and Other Associations

2.1.7 Foreign Organisations

2.1.8 Regional Governments.

2.1.9 Political Parties, Legislators, and Legislatures

2.1.9.1 10/ 2008

2.2 The Second Limb: Constitutional Loss

2.2.1 Early Cases

2.2.1.1 Taxpayers

2.2.1.2 Reviews despite Lack of Standing

2.2.2 A Stricter Approach?

2.2.2.1 Examples

2.2.3 Lawyers and Their Clients

3 Other Reasons for Refusing to Proceed

3.1 Same Challenge Already Decided

3.2 Kehilangan Objek

3.3 Kabur

Chapter 3 Decision Types

1 Conditional Decisions

1.1 From Conditional Constitutionality to Conditional Unconstitutionality

1.2 Correcting Obvious Errors

1.3 Clarifying Statutes

1.4 Vague Conditions

1.5 Removing or Adding Words

1.6 Norm Creation

1.7 Tangential Conditions

1.8 Analysis

1.8.1 Lawmaking and the Separation of Powers

1.8.1.1 Pragmatism

2 Suspensions of Invalidity

2.1 12-16-19/ 2006

2.2 Child Marriage

2.3 Tax Cases

2.4 The Tax Court

2.5 Other Suspensions

2.6 Analysis

3 Orders and Suggestions

3.1 Lawmaking Suggestions

3.2 Suggestions for Government Action

3.2.1 Medical Marijuana

3.2.2 The Livestock Industry Cases

3.3 Law Enforcers

3.4 Others

3.5 Orders with Teeth: The Education Budget Cases

4 Ultra Petita

4.1 Justifications

5 Injunctions

5.1 The Exceptions

Chapter 4 How the Court Reaches Its Decisions

1 Structure and Style of Decisions

2 The Pertimbangan Hukum

2.1 General Descriptions

2.2 Reasoning

3 Interpretation Methods

3.1 Grammatical Interpretation

3.2 Systematic Interpretation

3.3 Original Intent and the Living Constitution

3.4 Lex Specialis and a Contrario Interpretation

3.5 Presumption of Constitutionality

4 Previous Decisions

4.1 Early Cases

4.2 Current Practices

4.3 Reversals

4.4 Contentious Reversals

4.4.1 The KPK Cases

4.4.2 The PKPU Cases

5 International Law.

5.1 Rejection and Misapplication

6 Experts

6.1 Explaining Early Use

6.2 Developments

7 Doctrine

8 Implication of Rights

Chapter 5 The Confines of Constitutional Review

1 Open(ed) Legal Policy

1.1 Examples

1.2 Exceptions

2 The Court as a 'Negative Legislator'

2.1 Conditional Decisions

3 Criminal Policy

4 Article 28J(2)

4.1 Applying Article 28J(2)

4.2 Proportionality Test?

5 Non-derogable Rights

6 Socio-economic Rights

7 Abstract Review

7.1 Examples

7.2 Critiques

7.2.1 110-111-112-113/ 2009

7.2.2 5/ 2011

7.2.3 Analysis

8 Jurisdiction of Another Court

9 Reviewable Legal Instruments

9.1 MPR Decrees

9.2 Old Statutes

9.3 Other Statutes (for Consistency with Each Other)

9.4 Elucidations of Statutes

9.5 Interim Emergency Laws (Perpu)

9.5.1 Can the Court Review Perpu?

9.5.2 Subjective Presidential Determination?

9.5.3 The 'Next Sitting'

9.5.4 Is a Perpu Endorsement Statute an Ordinary Statute?

9.5.5 Dissenting Views

9.5.6 Unresolved Issue

9.6 Regulations

9.6.1 Statutory Delegations

Chapter 6 Dissents and Concurring Judgments

1 Dissents

1.1 Rate of Dissent

1.2 Joint Dissents

1.3 Initial Avoidance of Open Disagreement

1.4 Increasing Acceptance of Disagreement

1.5 Continuing Failure to Engage

1.6 Majority Adopting Minority

1.6.1 Simultaneous Election Cases

1.6.2 Marriage Age Cases

1.6.3 Decision 90

1.7 The Weight of Split Decisions

2 Concurring Decisions

2.1 Decision 90

2.1.1 Subsequent Challenge

Chapter 7 Effect and Compliance

1 Prospectivity of Decisions

1.1 Questionable Statutory Bases

1.3 Analysis

1.4 Criminal Cases

2 Enforcement

2.1 Court Decisions about Compliance

2.2 Consequences of Non-compliance

2.3 Effecting Compliance

3 Assessing Compliance.

3.1 Statutory Invalidations

3.2 Examples of Non-compliance

3.2.1 Statutory Revival

3.2.1.1 Criminal Law Revivals

3.2.1.2 Electoral Law Revivals

3.2.2 Court Endorses Non-compliant Legislation

3.2.3 Non-compliant Responses

3.2.4 Legal Instrument of Response

3.3 Conditional Decisions

3.3.1 Compliance by Regulation

3.3.2 Downsides to Compliance by Regulation

3.4 Judicial Compliance

3.4.1 Judicial Non-compliance

3.4.1.1 Resistance

3.4.1.2 Inconsistent Application

Chapter 8 The Constitutional Court and Elections

1 Constitutional Framework

2 Election-Related Statutes and Regulations

2.1 Statutory Evolution

3 DPR and DPRD Elections

3.1 Seats and Electoral Districts

3.2 Political Parties

3.3 The List System

3.3.1 End of the List System

3.3.2 114/2022

3.4 Affirmative Action

3.4.1 Party Executive Quotas

3.4.2 The Zipper System

3.5 Seat Allocation

3.6 Papua

4 DPD Elections

5 Presidential Elections

5.1 Two-Candidate-Pair Presidential Elections

5.2 Provincial Support Requirement

6 Simultaneous Presidential and Legislative Elections

6.1 14/2013

7 Separating National and Local Elections

7.1 Political and Legal Critiques

8 Regional Head Elections (Pemilukada)

8.1 One-Pair Races

8.2 Simultaneous Pemilukada

8.2.1 Term Cuts

8.2.2 Interim Regional Head Appointees

8.2.3 The Future

9 Electoral Institutions and Administration

9.1 The KPU

9.2 Bawaslu

9.3 The Electoral Administration Honour Council

9.4 Constitutional Court Cases

Chapter 9 Candidacy for Regional Heads and the Presidency

1 Regional Head Candidacy

1.1 Independent Candidates

1.2 Nomination Thresholds for Parties

1.2.1 Upper Limits?

1.3 Candidacy Requirements

1.3.1 Age

1.3.2 Criminal Convictions

1.3.2.1 14-17/2007

1.3.2.2 15/2008.

1.3.2.3 4/2009

1.3.2.4 42/2015

1.3.2.5 71/2016

1.3.2.6 56/2019

1.3.2.7 87/2022

1.3.3 Reprehensible Acts

1.3.4 Resign to Stand

1.3.5 Serving More than Two Terms

1.3.6 Serving as Deputy

1.3.7 Resign to Stand in Another Region

1.3.8 Relatives of Incumbents

1.3.9 Resign from Subnational Legislature to Run for Regional Head

2 Presidential Candidacy

2.1 Criminal Acts

2.2 Physical and Mental Health

2.3 Age

2.3.1 Decision 90

2.3.1.1 The Three-Judge Majority Decision

2.3.1.2 The Two Concurring Judgments

2.3.1.3 The Dissents

2.3.1.4 Implications for Maximum Presidential Age

2.4 Serving More than Two Terms

2.5 Party Nomination and Independent Candidates

2.5.1 56/2008

2.6 Threshold for Presidential Nomination

2.6.1 51-52-59/2008

2.6.2 Subsequent Cases

2.6.3 Invalidation of the Threshold

2.7 Resignation as a State Official

Chapter 10 Legislative Elections

1 Pre-election: Party Establishment and Verification

1.1 Party Establishment

1.2 Party Verification

1.3 Party Reverification

1.3.1 The 2017 GEL

2 Pre-election: Legislative Candidacy

2.1 Cross-over Jurisprudence: Criminal Convictions and Resigning to Stand

2.2 Political Party Membership

2.3 Former Communist Party Members

2.4 DPD Candidacy

2.4.1 Domicile

2.4.2 Independent Candidates

2.4.3 Resign to Stand

3 Election Day: The Right to Vote

3.1 Voting Age

3.2 Proxy Voting for the Physically Infirm

3.3 Visually Impaired Voters

3.4 Voters Living with Mental Illness

3.5 Police and Armed Forces

3.6 Noken

3.7 Registration Requirements

3.8 The e-KTP Requirement

3.9 Voters Who Move outside Their Electoral District

4 Post-election: The Parliamentary Threshold

4.1 DPR Threshold

4.2 DPRD Thresholds

4.3 Electoral Districts and Seat Allocation.

4.3.1 Seat Allocation.

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ISBN:

9789004684942

OCLC:

1610751380