Arief Hidayat (born 3 February 1956) was the fifth

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. Previously, he was a professor of law at his alma mater,

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. In January 2017, Hidayat led an investigation of his colleagues relating to a graft scandal on the court. Hidayat cleared the names of two of his fellow justices, I Dewa Gede Palguna and Manahan Sitompul, but discovered evidence that led to the dismissal of (former) fellow justice Patrialis Akbar. In December 2017, he denied committing an ethics violation by lobbying the

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for an extension of his term in office. He admitted to meeting legislators at a

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hotel but denied doing any lobbying. He came under criticism over alleged backroom deals regarding the House's inquiry into the

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(KPK) under the 2014 Legislative Institutions Law (MD3), which was under review by the

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. Academicians in February 2018 demanded he step down for alleged ethical violations. He was re-elected to serve a second and final term until 2023 but he was replaced by Anwar Usman as the Chief Justice of the Indonesian Constitutional Court in April 2018. Arief Hidayat was one of the minority constitutional judges who ruled in favor of outlawing pre-marital sex and criminalizing consensual same-sex relations in the country in 2017.

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