Indonesian Judicial Commission and FH UNUD Organize Public Discussion on Judicial Commission Bill

Author: UPIKS Team FH UNUD | Editor: Md Suksma PDS

Denpasar, FLUNUD.ac.id - Thursday (20/07/2023) a Public Discussion was held in collaboration between the Indonesian Judicial Commission and FH UNUD with the theme "Strengthening the Judicial Commission through Advocacy for the Second Amendment to the Judicial Commission Bill Number 22 of 2004 in the Context of Developing Judge Integrity in 2023" at the FH UNUD Hall, Denpasar Campus.

The series of events began with a speech by the Dean of FH UNUD (Prof. Dr. Putu Gede Arya Sumerta Yasa, S.H., M.Hum.), followed by remarks from the Head of the Bureau of Planning and Internal Compliance (R Adha Pamekas), and the delivery of Keynote Speech from the Head of Human Resources, Advocacy, Law, Research and Development of the Indonesian Judicial Commission (Binziad Kadafi, S.H., LL.M., Ph.D.) with the theme "Optimizing the Authority of the Judicial Commission in Order to Maintain and Uphold the Honor and Dignity of Judges" which also opened the activity. 

The activity continued with the presentation of material from 2 speakers: I Wayan Sudirta, S.H. (Member of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia) with the topic "Direction of the legal political policy of the Judicial Commission Bill Amendment in the National Legislation Program and the judicial power system in Indonesia", and Prof. Dr. Drs. Yohanes Usfunan, S.H., M.Hum. (Professor of FH UNUD) with the topic "Optimization of the Authority of the Judicial Commission in the Amendment of the Judicial Commission Bill" (Constitutional Law perspective) moderated by Edward Thomas Lamury Hadjon, S.H., LL.M. as the first speaker then the second speaker. Participants who attended this activity were the Ombudsman, the Mayor of Denpasar, the Deputy Dean for General and Financial Affairs of the Faculty of Law UNUD, the Chair of the Senate of the Faculty of Law UNUD, along with academics, practitioners, and students with a total of 100 participants. 

Through this discussion activity, there were many essential notes from the speakers that needed to be considered in formulating the KY Bill such as the synergy of MA and KY in supervisory collaboration through strategic partners, proposals for imposing sanctions, and the process of recruitment of supreme judges. The discussion went very well, and the participants actively discussed and expressed their opinions.