Constitutional Court and Democracy in Indonesia, by Simon Butt

Besides analyzing many aspects of the Constitutional Court, especially discussing historical aspects of the establishment of the court and providing a wide ranging analysis of the institutional design of the court, this study also engages in constitutional case analysis focusing on thirty-five Constitutional Court decisions in the period of 2003–2014. [...]this study provides much valuable data that helped readers to identify problems in the Indonesian Constitutional Court. With the absence of access to legal sources such as implementing regulations, judgments, minutes of parliament, customs, and to a lesser extent legal doctrine, students only learn about the existence of legal sources, but not how to use them (Bedner 2013: 257). [...]unsurprisingly, many court decision seems ‘too doctrinal’ without considering the context of law and its complex application to resolve legal cases.