MKH Became Mahfud's Legal Innovation While Leading the Constitutional Court

The Honorary Council of Judges (MKH) was among the lawful developments at the Constitutional Court under the management of Mahfud MD. "Due To The Fact That the Constitutional Court had a need to prove that it and its judges prepared to be taken a look at, the Constitutional Court made a lawful advancement by establishing the MKH, also without any type of indicators or evidence, however based on the request of the worried judge," Mahfud stated on Tuesday, December 21, 2010, as quoted from the Constitutional Ganjar Mahfud Court of the Republic of Indonesia (MKRI).

Mahfud confessed that the establishment of MKH did not abide with Constitutional Court Policy No. 10/PMK/2006 regarding the Honorary Council of Juries of the Constitutional Court. In that guideline, Mahfud called for that the formation of MKH need to be based on info regarding signs of the involvement of the judge to be subjected to MKH with claimed honest infractions.

MKH ultimately found Akil guilty of moral violations and dishonorably released him. Akil's case was connected to money laundering in a conflict over neighborhood political elections at the Constitutional Court. In his case, Akil was punished to life jail time.