Aswanto is an Indonesian Justice of the

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, served until November 2022. He then replaced by Guntur Hamzah. He and Wahiduddin Adams were appointed by the

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in March 2014.Bonardo Wahono
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'', 14 August 2014. Aswanto graduated from

Hasanuddin University Hasanuddin University () which is abbreviated as Unhas, is one of the largest autonomous universities in Indonesia. It is located in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Unhas was established on September 10, 1956, and named after Sultan Hasanud ...

, where he was serving on the Faculty of Law at the time of his appointment to the Constitutional Court, and also earned a Master's of Law from

Gadjah Mada University Gadjah Mada University (; , abbreviated as UGM) is a public research university located in Sleman, Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Officially founded on 19 December 1949, Gadjah Mada University is one of the oldest and largest institut ...

and a doctorate in law from

Airlangga University Airlangga University ( Indonesian: ; , abbreviated as UNAIR) is the second-oldest university in Indonesia and also a research public university located in Surabaya, East Java. Despite being officially established by Indonesian Government Regulati ...

. Prior to his appointment to the court, he was active in judicial and electoral affairs of

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, having served on the province's Justice and Human Rights Regional Office, General Election Supervisory Committee and as the ombudsmen of

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. Aswanto was one of the minority judges who ruled in favor of outlawing premarital sex and criminalizing consensual same-sex acts in 2017. Aswanto also joined the rest of the Constitutional Court in opposition to total privatization of Indonesia's water resources, and in viewing challenges to Indonesia's tax amnesty law with suspicion.Constitutional Court queries challenge to Tax Amnesty Law
Jakarta Post News Desk, 28 July 2016. Aswanto also ruled against Omnibus Law concerning job creation.

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{{Authority control Justices of the Constitutional Court of Indonesia 21st-century Indonesian judges Living people Gadjah Mada University alumni People from Palopo 1964 births