Arief Hidayat

Arief Hidayat, born in 1956, is an Indonesian jurist who was the fifth Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court of Indonesia. Before joining the bench he was a professor of law at Diponegoro University, his alma mater. In January 2017 he led the court's investigation of colleagues arising from a graft scandal, an inquiry that cleared Justices I Dewa Gede Palguna and Manahan Sitompul and found evidence that led to the dismissal of Justice Patrialis Akbar. In December 2017 he denied committing an ethics violation by lobbying the House of Representatives for an extension of his term. He was re-elected to a second and final term ending in 2023, though Anwar Usman replaced him as Chief Justice in April 2018. He was also one of the minority of constitutional judges who in 2017 ruled in favor of outlawing pre-marital sex and criminalizing consensual same-sex relations.