MAHKAMAH KONSTITUSI DAN HUKUM ACARA PERADILAN KONSTITUSI english

CONSTITUTIONAL COURT AND
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT
PROCEDURE LAW

BACKGROUND OF CONSTITUTIONAL
COURT INSTITUTION
• US Supreme Court Decision Marbury vs
Madison 1803.
• George Jellinek  Austria’s Supreme Court
have Authority to review parliament act.
• Hans Kelsen  Set up separate court
outside MA  Vervassungsgerichtshoft
(Austria Constitution 1920).

ARGUMENTATION
• Supremacy of the Constitution
• Checks and Balances
• Protection of Citizen Rights

The Constitutional Court
of the RI

• M Yamin  Supreme Court should review act.
• Konstitusi RIS  Supreme Court Review State
Act.
• Recommendation of PAH II MPRS 1966-1967 
Supreme Court should Review Act.
• IKAHI  1970, Supreme Court should Review
Act.
• Tap MPR No. III/MPR/2000  MPR Review Act
against Constitution.
• The Third Amendment of UUD 1945  CCRI

Dasar Pemikiran

• The Importance of JR
• Balancing the power of law maker.
• From Supremacy of MPR to the
Supremacy of the Constitution.
• Human Rights and Constitutional Rights
Protection.


Status of CCRI

• State Organ
• Judiciary Organ
• Equal among others constitutional
organ
• Impartial

AUTHORITY
Decide on:
• Constitutional Review of Parliament
Act;
• Inter-branch Dispute;
• Dispute on the result of General
Election;
• Political Party Dissolution;
• Impeachment of the President and/or
VP.

FUNCTION

• the guardian of the constitution;
• the final interpreter of the
constitution;
• the protector of human rights;
• the protector of the citizen’s
constitutional rights;
• the protector of democracy.

SOURCES

• UUD 1945
• Act. NO. 24 TAHUN 2003 (and related
Act);
• PMK-PMK (CC Regulation)
• Decision of CCRI