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Author:   Simon Butt
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Martinus Nijhoff
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.662kg
ISBN:  

9789004244177

ISBN 10:   9004244174
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   22 May 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

About the Book Commonly-used Acronyms and Abbreviations Glossary and Abbreviations List of Cited Legal Instruments Commonly-cited Constitutional Provisions Statutes and Emergency Laws Other Instruments List of Cited Cases Constitutional Review Cases Electoral Disputes 2004 Legislative Election 2009 Legislative Election 2014 Legislative Election Presidential Elections Pemilukada Disputes Decisions of Other Courts 1 Introduction 1 Structure of the Book 2 Introduction to the Constitutional Court Part I: Introduction to the Constitutional Court 2 Establishment of the Constitutional Court 1 The Introduction of Constitutional Courts and Judicial Review 2 The Need for a Constitutional Court 2.1 Concern for Human Rights 3 International Influences for the Court 4 Historical and Political Factors 4.1 Constitutional Debates 4.2 Judicial Subjugation 4.3 Ideological Competitors 4.4 Structural Reforms and the Fading of Pancasila 4.5 Constitutional Reform as a Political Survival Tactic 5 Debates about Form and Jurisdiction 6 Conclusion 3 The Structure of the Court Judges, Access, Decision-making and Enforcement 1 Judicial Appointment 1.1 Prerequisites 1.2 Nomination 2 Dismissal of Judges 2.1 Dismissal Process 2.2 Arsyad Sanusi 2.3 Akil Mochtar 3 Access to the Constitutional Court 3.1 Standing: Who Can Bring an Application Before the Court? 3.2 Complaints of Damage to Constitutional Rights 3.3 Political Parties, Parliamentarians and Parliaments 3.4 Reviews Granted Despite Lack of Standing 3.5 Court Costs and Timing 4 Decision-making of the Constitutional Court 4.1 Structure of Judgments 4.2 Style and Extrinsic Material 4.3 Use of Precedent 4.4 Dissents 5 Enforcement of Constitutional Court Decisions 5.1 Resistance to Enforcement 5.2 Government Compliance with Decisions Part II: Constraints on the Constitutional Court’s Decision-making and Jurisdiction 4 External Constraints on the Constitutional Court The Constitution and the Legislature 1 Constitutional Constraints 1.1 Limitation of Constitutional Review to Statutes 1.2 The Court as a ‘Negative Legislator’ 2 Legislative Latitude 2.1 KPK Law Case (2003) 2.2 Opened Legal Policy 2.3 Article 28J(2) and Proportionality 3 Statutorily-imposed Constraints of the 2003 Constitutional Court Law 3.1 Rulings on the Court’s Own Interests 3.2 Article 50 cases 3.3 MK Perpu Case (2014) 5 Court-imposed Constraints 1 Review Limited to Norms 1.1 Implementation or Interpretation of Statutes 1.2 Wijaya and Lubis Case (2008) 1.3 Blasphemy Law Case (2010) 1.4 Retrospectivity Cases 1.5 Inconsistencies in Court-imposed Constraints 1.6 Sisa Suara Case (2009) 1.7 KPK Commissioners Case (2011) 2 Prospectivity of Decisions 2.1 Lèse Majesté Case (2006) 2.2 Bali Bombing Case (2003) 2.3 Death Penalty (2007) and Firing Squad (2008) Cases 2.4 Discussion 2.5 Exceptions 3 Injunctions 3.1 Criticisms of the Court-Awarded Injunctions 6 Jurisdictional Expansion 1 The 2011 Amendments and their Invalidation 2 Structure of this Chapter 3 Conditional (Un)constitutionality 3.1 2011 Amendments and the Court’s Response 4 Orders to Lawmakers 4.1 Education Budget Cases 4.2 Anti-Corruption Court Case (2007) 4.3 2011 Amendments and the Court’s Response 5 Ultra petita 5.1 2011 Amendments and the Court’s Response 6 Legal Certainty 6.1 2011 Amendments and the Court’s Response 7 Government Policy 8 Interim Emergency Laws (Perpu) 8.1 Saor Siagian Case (2009) 8.2 MK Perpu Case (2014) 9 Implication of Rights Part III: Constitutional Challenges to Electoral Statutes 7 Indonesian Elections Systems, Laws and Scope for Challenges 1 Constitutional Framework 2 Election-related Statutes and Regulations 2.1 Statutory Evolution 2.2 Explaining Multiple Challenges to Similar Norms 3 DPR and DPRD Elections 3.1 The List System 3.2 Affirmative Action 3.3 Seat Allocation 3.4 Establishment and Verification 4 DPD Elections 4.1 The DPD Jurisdiction Case (2012) 4.2 DPD Elections 5 Presidential Elections 6 Pemilukada 7 Customary Voting Procedures 8 Election Institutions and Administration 8.1 Constitutional Court Cases 8 Legislative Elections 1 Judicial Review of Candidacy Rules 1.1 PKI Case (2003) 1.2 Former Convicts 1.3 Civil Servant Candidate Case (2010) 1.4 Political Rights of Police and Armed Forces 2 Party Establishment and Verification 3 Contesting the ‘Next Election’: The Election Threshold Cases 4 The Parliamentary Threshold 4.1 Parliamentary Threshold Case (2009) 4.2 Parliamentary Threshold and Party Verification Case (2012) 9 Electoral Districts and Seat Allocation 9.1 Seat Allocation 9.2 Third Round Allocation Dispute (2009) 10 The People versus the Parties 10.1 The List Cases 10.2 Affirmative Action 10.3 Removal from Parliament 10.4 Other Types of Removal 10.5 Suspensions 9 Presidential Elections 1 Judicial Review of the Presidential Electoral System 1.1 Two-candidate Presidential Election Case (2014) 1.2 Ethnic Minorities Case (2012) 1.3 Electoral Roll Case (2009) 2 Judicial Review of Candidacy 2.1 Party Nomination 2.2 Independent Candidates Case (2008) 2.3 Subsequent Independent Candidate Cases 3 Threshold for Presidential Nomination 3.1 Saurip Kadi Case (2008) 3.2 Subsequent Presidential Nomination Threshold Cases 4 Other Candidacy Cases 4.1 Abdurrahman Wahid Case (2004) 4.2 Tax Records Case (2009) 5 Simultaneous Presidential and Legislative Elections 5.1 Saurip Kadi Case (2008) 5.2 Simultaneous Elections Case (2013) 5.3 Critique and Controversy 6 Future Challenges to Presidential Elections Part IV: Constitutional Court Returns Jurisprudence 10 Electoral Disputes before the Constitutional Court Between ‘Mahkamah Kalkulator’ and ‘Substantive Justice’ 1 Differing Approaches 2 2004 Elections 2.1 Legislative Elections 2.2 Presidential Elections 3 Pemilukada (2008-2012) 3.1 East Java Case (2008) 3.2 Breaches in the Electoral Process that Led to Recounts or Revotes 3.3 Testing the Scope of Electoral Process Breaches 4 2009 Elections 4.1 Legislative Elections 4.2 Presidential Elections 5 2014 Elections 5.1 Legislative Elections 5.2 Presidential Elections 6 Evidence in Electoral Disputes 6.1 East Java Case (2008) 6.2 Reliance on Witness Testimony 6.3 Procedural and Evidentiary Hurdles to Review 7 The End of Pemilukada in the Constitutional Court 11 Conclusions Bibliography

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In this book, Simon Butt analyses how the court performed during its first decade. He examines to what extent its decisions and processes are impartial (and whether they can be clearly distinguished from political processes) and constrained by law. His observations will be important for those studying Indonesian law and politics, as well as other issues, such as healthcare and human rights, that have been significantly affected by the court's decisions. - Bivitri Susanti Executive Board Member, The Indonesian Foundation for Law and Policy Studies, in: The Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies

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Simon Butt, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Law at Sydney University, Australia, where he teaches Indonesian law. He has written widely on Indonesia, including: Corruption and Law in Indonesia (Routledge, 2012) and The Indonesian Constitution: a Contextual Analysis (Hart, 2012, with Tim Lindsey).

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