Legal Literacy - Stepping on almost 2.5 decades, the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Indonesia stands tall, navigating the long record of the historical traces of the political and legal constitutional system of the Indonesian nation after the closing of the 1998 reform event.
The ideals framed in mid-2003 have shaped the Constitutional Court into an independent and impartial judicial power institution with an ethical role inherent in it as "The Guardian of Constitution" until now.
However, in the midst of its 2-decade age this year, the Constitutional Court is faced with increasingly complex and varied challenges. The acceleration of technological developments and advances in the 21st century has brought a wave of disruption that has impacted every gap in the sectors of national and state life, including the judicial administration ecosystem within the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Indonesia. So that this disruption phenomenon does not only concern transitional changes, but also a transformation process that can qualitatively change the fundamental structure.
Digitalization, Today's Challenges of the Constitutional Court
The transmigration process of conventional interactions into digital form is like a double-edged sword (read: dilemmatic). In addition to the positive impacts obtained, there are also negative sides that must be anticipated. Digital developments cause technological upheavals that affect social life.
To face this turbulence, the Constitutional Court as one of the highest judicial institutions must position itself as part of the target of inevitable change.
Hyper information or a surplus of information channels that are often misleading (hoaxes), slander, propaganda of hatred between groups so that what happens is noise, division and horizontal confrontation in society are a small part of the consequences of digital transformation.
This problem will ultimately only become a tangled thread that is difficult to unravel, especially ahead of the 2024 Election momentum which often brings high tension into social media interactions which further muddy the atmosphere.
Therefore, the Constitutional Court as "The Final Interpreteur of Constitution" must always strive to re-socialize the familiarity of citizens which is starting to fade due to symptoms of hyper fanatism sectarianby distributing literacy evenly in interpreting the values of the constitution in full through an approach based on information openness, accountability and democratic values.
On the other hand, challenges that concern technical, formal and structural matters. In addition to sub-constraints in fulfilling adequate supporting infrastructure, recently the existence of artificial intelligence technology (Artificial Intelligence/AI) has become a new sub-challenge in the era of Next Level Technology for the Constitutional Court.
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