Promoting the Good Governance by Advancing the Role of Parliamentarians and the Term Offices Limitation (Comparing Nigeria and Indonesia)

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Tonye Clinton Jaja
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1487-9821
Zaka Firma Aditya
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2633-0927

Abstract

In the 21st century new world order, there is growing interest more than ever before in issues related to democracy and good governance around the world. This is a reflection of the increasing acceptance of the fact that democracy and good governance are not a luxury, but a fundamental requirement to achieve sustainable development. Parliament as of the key state institutions in a democratic system of governance have a critical role to play in promoting democracy and good governance. As the democratically elected representatives of the people, parliaments have the honourable task to ensure good government by the people and for the people.  In the performance of their key functions of legislation, representation and oversight, parliaments encounter challenges that negatively affect their efforts in promoting democracy and good governance. The paper attempts to discuss the concept of parliamentary governance and the contribution of the parliament in consolidating democracy in Indonesia and Africa. This includes examining how parliaments respond to the growing public pressure for greater involvement, information, accountability and better service delivery to the citizens and the limitation of term offices ans one of the accountability processes. The paper argues that parliamentary governance is the basic parameter in assessing the progress of democracy in a country and concludes that lack of it is the source of poor governance with the attendant political, economic and social problems in a state.

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Jaja, T. C., & Aditya, Z. F. (2022). Promoting the Good Governance by Advancing the Role of Parliamentarians and the Term Offices Limitation (Comparing Nigeria and Indonesia). Journal of Indonesian Legal Studies, 7(1), 265-298. https://doi.org/10.15294/jils.v7i1.54776
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Author Biographies

Tonye Clinton Jaja, National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS), Abuja, Nigeria

Dr. Tonye Clinton Jaja obtained LLB, LLM, PhD degree from University of London. He working as Senior Research Fellow/Acting Head of Division of Bills and Legislative Drafting, National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies, Nigeria. He also serving as an Advocate, Lawyer, and Attorney-at-Law. His area of practice and expertise concerning Commercial law, Corporate law, Employment law, Contract law, International law, Arbitration, Litigation, and Immigration.

Zaka Firma Aditya, Constitutional Court of the Republic of Indonesia

Zaka Firma Aditya is a constitutional researcher at the Indonesian Constitutional Court. He received a Bachelor's degree (SH/LL.B) from the Faculty of Law, Semarang State University and completed a Master's degree (MH/LL.M) from the Faculty of Law, Airlangga University through the LPDP scholarship. His research interests lie in constitutional law and human rights. His main job is to do research, study cases, and write scientific papers, legal opinions, and academic manuscripts. He has published in a range of peer-reviewed journals, books and proceedings. Some of the recent are, a book entitled Retroactive Principles of Constitutional Court Decisions in Theory and Practice (2020), Constitutional Law: History, Theory, and the dynamic of Indonesian State Administration (2021), a journal article entitled Indonesian Constitutional Rights: Expressing and Purposing Opinions on The internet (2021, indexed by Scopus), Judicial Consistency in the Constitutional Court's Decision on the Judicial Review of the Blasphemy Law (2020), Conceptualization of the Omnibus Law in the National Capital Relocation (2021), Legal Protection of Indigenous People's Rights Through Strengthening the Licensing Principles Based on Social Sensitivity (2021), and Judicial Masculinity: Examining the Role and Effect of Woman's Justice in the Indonesian Constitutional Court (2021).

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