Mahfud MD: Legal Experts Don't Get Trapped In Politics, Must Think Clear

Constitutional Law Symposium and National Working Meeting of the Association for Teaching Constitutional Law and State Administrative Law (APHTN-HAN) in Nusa Dua, Badung, Bali./DAFI PHOTO VOI

BADUNG - Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Mahfud MD asked legal experts not to get caught up in partial politics. Legal experts must be neutral.

This statement is conveyed in

Constitutional Law Symposium and National Working Meeting of the Association for Teaching Constitutional Law and State Administrative Law (APHTN-HAN) in Nusa Dua, Badung, Bali.

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substantive in nature. First of all, you are an association of experts in constitutional law and state administrative law. So you have to think clearly as a legal expert," said Mahfud MD who is also the Chairman of the APHTN-HAN's Board of Trustees.

"Why is this important? There are two things. First, lawyers are often trapped in biased political views. So if there is something, between the constitutional law itself, there is a lot of noise, one word like this, one like this, it's actually nothing. what and ordinary in science," he added.

If legal experts are involved in support and support, then the neutrality of the study or analysis can be biased.

"But if you are later involved in supporting a political agenda that is not clear from your intellect then it is not good. It will be different for me and (Minister) Yasonna because this is indeed the government has policy choices that must be accounted for. So if I choose this Yes, it can be politically responsible, but if you are a scientist in an academic organization like you, you have to be clear," said Mahfud.

Therefore, it is important for legal experts to be neutral. Because Mahfud considered that legal arguments could be put forward to defend political interests taken by legal experts.

“In doing legal analysis, because sometimes, if you already have a political attitude, then the legal analysis is wrong, taking sides with the one who is looking for this argument. On the one hand, the argument is this and so on," he said.

"The law can only look for arguments. It's the same with your religion (participants), that religion you want to find hard arguments, there are soft ones, there are intermediate ones, it's just a matter of what the socio-political situation is like," said Mahfud MD.

Meanwhile, Minister of Law and Human Rights Yasonna Laoly said that there are political parties that are not actively carrying out their functions.

"Of the 75 registered political parties, many are not active and do not carry out their functions as political parties properly so that they can potentially interfere with democratic life," he said.

The Ministry of Law and Human Rights, continued Laoly, had held a meeting with the KPU. It was agreed that political parties must be registered within 2.5 years before the election.

"Depending on the KPU, how many political parties will be able to participate in the 2024 election," he said.