Legal Literacy - In many parts of the world, the promise of democracy born from the collapse of authoritarian regimes is now under a new, more subtle and dangerous threat. This threat no longer comes from armed military coups, but from within the democratic system itself, through a phenomenon known as autocratic legislation or autocratic legalism". This is a silent agenda of authoritarianism carried out by populist leaders, who use their democratic mandate to manipulate and shape laws to legitimize their own power interests.
The culmination of this practice, and the most worrying, is when autocrats use the most sacred mechanism in a country—constitutional change—no longer as an instrument to strengthen the protection of human rights, but rather to hijack and destroy the joints of the rule of law. Hungary under the leadership of Viktor Orbán is the most perfect and terrible example of this autocratic constitutional change practice, a case study of how easily a democratic constitution can be stripped and transformed into an instrument of absolute power.
This Hungarian experience is not just a story from a distant land. It is a warning mirror that is very relevant to Indonesia. The discourse on the fifth amendment to the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia (UUD 1945) that continues to roll, coupled with the existing domestic political reality, opens up a risk gap…
Securing Democracy: Preventing the Risk of Autocratic Constitutional Change in Indonesia
Legal Literacy - In many parts of the world, the promise of democracy born from the collapse of authoritarian regimes is now under a new, more subtle and dangerous threat. This threat no longer comes from...
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