REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BANDARLAMPUNG -- The eight-member expert team tasked with selecting Constitutional Court justice candidates has a good track record and the nation need not doubt their credibility, stated former constitutional court chief Mahfud MD.
"The current members of the selection team are clean. They will unlikely collude with other parties because the people will supervise them," he noted here on Monday.
He is convinced that the expert team will be able to choose the best Constitutional Court justices. "I believe the team will choose the best," he claimed.
The House of Representatives (DPR)'s Commission III has appointed an eight-member expert team to select candidates for Constitutional Court justices and will conduct a fit and proper test, which is scheduled to be held on March 3-5, 2014.
The eight members of the expert team are former constitutional court justice Laica Marzuki, former chief of the Muhammadiyah Islamic organization Ahmad Syafi'I Maarif, state administrative law expert Lauddin Marsuni, member of the People's Consultative Assembly's Constitution Forum Zein Bajeber, former constitutional court justice Natabaya, former law and human rights minister Andi Mattalatta, state administrative professor Saldi Isra, and sociologist and researcher Musni Umar.
The Constitutional Court justices should be elected before the House recess commences on March 6, 2014.
Eleven of the 12 Constitutional Court justice candidates are professionals and one candidate is a politician from the United Development Party (PPP).
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