MKMK Dismisses Anwar Usman from Constitutional Court Chief Justice Post

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Ethics Council of the Constitutional Court, or MKMK, announced that MK Chief Justice Anwar Usman had committed serious violations of the code of ethics and behavior of judges. As the sanction, the MKMK dismissed him as the Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court.

"(Anwar Usman) was proven to have committed serious violations of the principles of impartiality, integrity, competence and equality, independence, and the principles of appropriateness and decency," said MKMK Chairman Jimly Asshidiqie when reading the decision at MK Building I, Jakarta, Tuesday, November 7, 2023.

MKMK ordered the Deputy Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court to lead the leadership election within 2x24 hours. Regarding the dismissal of Anwar Usman as Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court, Bintan R. Saragih delivered a dissenting opinion.

However, MKMK stated that it did not have the authority to alter MK's verdict on the minimum age limit for presidential and vice presidential candidates. This is due This is because the MKMK only has the authority to judge ethical violations.

"MKMK has no authority to judge MK verdicts, moreover to also question the validity or invalidity of a court decision," said Wahiduddin Adams when reading out the MKMK decision at MK Building I in Jakarta on Tuesday, November 7.

Wahiduddin said that changing MK verdicts was beyond MKMK's authority.

Jimly said that all judges were proven unable to maintain confidential information in judges' deliberation meetings or RPH. In addition, the MKMK considered that judges were accustomed to the practice of violating conflicts of interest as something normal.

Due to the violation, the MKMK imposed a collective verbal warning sanction on the reported judges.

HAN REVANDA PUTRA

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