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c. Cases of disputes over the results of general elections

d. Cases of testing the constitutionality of laws

Speaking Practice

Exercise 3. Ask your friends about the difference between these legal terms below.

Manslaughter/Murder

Imprisonment/rehabilitation
Police station cell/prison cell

Drug dealing/drug trafficking

File sharing/illegal file sharing

Reading Practice
Constitutional Law Practice

The practical field of constitutional law study is broad, numerous, and open. State and
government activities that are covered in the field of constitutional law include the following
activities:

1 ) Legislation and formation of statutory regulations;
2 ) Administration relating to information management activities and dissemination of
legal information;
3 ) Legal education and development of the legal profession;
4 ) Administration of law or implementation in the sense of the application of the law by
executors determined by said law (the administration of law);
5 ) Legal aspects of state government administration activities;
6 ) Law enforcement activities starting with investigations and prosecutions;
7 ) Administration of justice up to the decision of a permanent judge;
8 ) Implementation of court decisions and correctional of convicts;
9 ) Education and development of public legal awareness.
The nine fields of activity above, especially regarding institutionalization
(instellingen), regulation (regelendaad), and other decision-making (besslissing) aspects,
provide a vast field for the practice of constitutional law. The activities also concern the
duties of many legal and governmental institutions where constitutional law is practised,
namely:

a) Parliamentary institutions throughout Indonesia include the MPR, DPR, DPD, and
DPRD.
b) Executive government administrative institutions vertically from the central level to
provincial and district/city levels, and horizontally from government departments,
non-departmental government agencies, councils, commissions, and executive bodies
which are independent in nature, all of which require the support of experts in the
field of constitutional law;

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