"The notion that the state is a machine whose function is to organize the general interest comes into such a context is something of a strange idea"

Finally received this book! My chapter "Between Sacred and a Hard Place: Amendment Rules in Indonesia's 1945 Constitution" try to investigate the reason why the 1945 Constitution are considered as a sacred document by some Indonesians.

Thanks to Verfassungsblog for publishing my thoughts with Ignatius Yordan Nugraha about the influence of folk understanding of power in Indonesia's new government verfassungsblog.de/is-this-a-cons…

Check out this latest piece from my talented colleague, Ignatius Yordan Nugraha. Where he examined a recent decision of the Indonesian Constitutional Court which declared that there is no right for not having religion in Indonesia. verfassungsblog.de/godly-constitu…

Thanks to Law & Humanities Blog for picking up my forthcoming work on "Indonesia and the Spectre of the Dharmic-Infused Constitutional Structure" lawlit.blogspot.com/2025/06/satrio…

Iskandar on Indonesian Constitutional Theory, buff.ly/PifiRXT - Pranoto Iskandar (McGill University - Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism; The Institute for Migrant Rights; Tarumanagara University) has posted Mistranslating Constitutional Law? Hukum Tata Negara, A

Ignatius Yordan Nugraha on "A Fatherly 'Just King'" published by 161 Inside Indonesia (2025) insideindonesia.org/archive/articl…