ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the chairmanship of Arief Hidayat; at this stage, the Indonesian Constitutional Court fully entered into the third-generation period. It reviews socio economic rights cases under the chairmanship of Arief Hidayat. The cases include The Forestry and P3H Law case, The Chevron Pacific case, The Marriageable Age case and The Electricity Law III case. In more than a decade since the Court's inception, the Court still dealt with the judicial review of the electoral process, bupati, and mayor, commonly known as "regional election head". One of the central concerns of the election of governor, bupati, and mayor is the issue of political dynasty. Apart from judicial soldiering, the defining feature of Arief Hidayat's tenure as chief justice was a lack of attention to judicial reputation. Hidayat did not have any strategies to guard the collective reputation of the Court, as was evident when he failed to show strong leadership when Patrialis Akbar was arrested over bribery allegations.
