Courts and Diversity

Bertus de Villiers is a Visiting Professor of the Law School of the University of Johannesburg and a Member of the State Administrative Tribunal of Western Australia. He is a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung (Germany). He specialises in the areas of minority and indigenous rights, decentralisation, human rights, and land reform. Saldi Isra is a Constitutional Law Professor at the Faculty of Law of Andalas University in Padang, West Sumatra, and the Deputy Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court of Indonesia. Prior to his appointment to the Constitutional Court in 2017, he was Director of the Center for Constitutional Studies (PUSaKO) at the Faculty of Law of Andalas University from 2005–2017.Pan Mohamad Faiz is a Constitutional Law Expert. He works as the Head of the Research Center of the Indonesian Constitutional Court. Faiz is also an External Research Fellow at the Center for Public, International and Comparative Law (CPICL). He received his PhD in Constitutional Law from TC Beirne School of Law, the University of Queensland, Australia.

• List of Figures, Maps and TablesNotes on Contributors1 Constitutionalism and Diversity: Setting the SceneBertus de Villiers2 Indonesia’s Diversity: A Brief Constitutional PerspectiveI D.G. Palguna and Bisariyadi3 The Indonesian Constitutional Court: An OverviewSaldi Isra and Pan Mohamad Faiz4 The Law of Diversity and Indonesia’s Village Law: Creating Procedures for Completeness in Diverse SocietiesTove H. Malloy5 The Constitutional Court of Indonesia as a Post-Conflict InstitutionChristie S. Warren6 Religious Rights: Testing the Limits of ToleranceAnn Black7 The Recognition of Customary Land Rights at the Constitutional Court of Indonesia: A Critical Assessment of the JurisprudenceYance Arizona and Miriam Cohen8 The ‘Right’ to Free, Prior and Informed Consent: Evolving Customary International LawGeorge Barrie9 Collective Decision-Making versus Individual Rights: A Reflection on the ‘Noken’ Electoral System of Papua and the Operation of Native Title in AustraliaBertus de Villiers10 Constitutional Approaches to Diversity and Non-discrimination in Multi-level States: Indonesian and South African Jurisprudential PerspectivesNico Steytler11 The Australian Experience: Constitutional Courts - The Rule of LawRobert French ACIndex