IJCpp. Vol. 18 No. 2 September 2022 YURISDIKSI Jurnal Wacana Hukum dan Sains Universitas Merdeka Surabaya This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License 201 ISSN print 2086-6852 and ISSN Online 2598-5892 The Authority of The Supreme Court over The Articles of Association or by Laws of Political Parties Widyawati Boediningsih,Norma Rahmawati Faculty of Law,Narotama University Surabaya, Indonesia E-mail:wboediningsih@gmail.com and normarahmawati233@gmail.com Article History: Received: Agustus 11, 2022; Accepted: September 09, 2022 ABSTRACT The purpose of this Study to keep no legal void the creation of legal certainty.Articles of Association of a Political Party or commonly referred to as AD/ART, is a binding provision for its members, which is binding, the same as a statutory regulation. The recent phenomenon is that the review of the articles of association of a political party to the Supreme Court,which had never existed before or had never happened in this Republic. There are 2 (two) State Institutions that have the right to Judicial Review against existing laws and regulations, namely the Supreme Court (MA) and the Constitutional Court, This test must be carried out so that there is no legal vacuum in it. The method used in this research is normative research, namely research using a statutory and conceptual approach. The results of this study, AD/ART is not a statutory regulation because it is not included in the hierarchy of laws and regulations, but from the point of view of civil law AD/ART is an agreement between the parties who made it and binds it. The Supreme Court continues to test the AD/ART so that there is no legal vacuum and the creation of a legal certainty. keywords: Judicial review, AD/ART, Supreme Court 1. INTRODUCTION The Political party is a container to convey political aspirations for its members. One of them is the Articles of Association otr household budget. There is a recent phenomenon at the end of this end of the problem that occured to political parties, namely the issue of the Articles of Association or household budget called AD or ART (Lees-Marshment, 2001). The Examination of the articles of association or by laws of political parties or commonly reffered to as AD or ART to the Supreme Court is a recent phenomenon because there is no institution authorized to carry out such testing. Examination of AD or ART to the Supreme Court, then consider that AD or ART as a statutory regulation. Where the Supreme Court has the authority to examine the legislation under the Law against the Law (Seidel et al., 2019). The only Supreme justice of all judicial environments is the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court is an independent judicial power that cannot be influence by any member of the goverment (excecutive), Legislator (Legislative), or any other party in conducting judicial proceedings to upload law and justice (Roesli et al., 2019). The Judicial Power is given the authority to examine a statutory rule if the lower statutory regulation contradicts the higher regulation. This is known as the Judicial review, namely the Supreme Court and the Constitutional court. The Constitutional court has the authority to examine laws against the 1945 Constitution of The Republic of Indonesia (Abdullah, 2006).