This article presents a comparative constitutional law study of the President's executive power. The article confidently interprets the President's executive power based on the 1945 Constitution. It does so by referring to the unitary executive theory developed in the United States by unitarians based on the Constitution of the United States. Unitary executive means that the President, as Chief Executive, holds all executive power. The study's central point is presidentialism, a system of government shared by the United States and Indonesia. This article has two purposes. First, it corrects the foundational flaw of the unitary executive theory developed by unitarians because they do not specifically claim presidentialism as the underlying principle of their theory. Second, it makes the unitary executive theory applicable to Indonesia.

This article discusses the recall directed to Justice Aswanto of the Constitutional Court during his tenure by the House of Representatives (DPR). The DPR recalls Justice Aswanto due to its disagreement with his judicial performance. According to the law, the Constitutional Court Justices may only be removed from office during his/her tenure through the Ethical Council of the Constitutional Court. This article argues that the recall is inconsistent with the principle of security of tenure and, therefore, contradicts the principle of judicial independence. Unfortunately, this issue is not the main problem. The primary issue is that the legislature has no room to disagree with the Constitutional Court's interpretation in reviewing the constitutionality of legislation. This issue arises because the Constitution, UUD 1945, allocates the finality of the constitutional review mechanism in the judiciary. In solving the issue, this article refers to the Canadian model of constitutional review. The concept of the Canadian model is a judicial review with legislative finality.

Tulisan ini mengidentifikasi (atau mendiagnosis) bahwa sistem pemerintahan presidensial kita mengalami praktik abnormal, rivalitas politik, dalam hubungan antara presiden dengan pemerintahan daerah, khususnya kepala daerah. Untuk menanggapi isu tersebut, tulisan ini berpendapat bahwa kita perlu melakukan penataan kembali hubungan antara presiden dengan pemerintahan daerah supaya lebih taat asas terhadap preskripsi dari konstitusi presidensial kita. Untuk itu, tulisan ini menggunakan teori unitary executive sebagai alat interpretasi terhadap kekuasaan eksekutif presiden dalam Pasal 4 ayat (1) UUD NRI 1945. Sesuai usulan tersebut maka tulisan ini memberikan preskripsi supaya presiden seharusnya diberikan kekuasaan untuk menunjuk dan memberhentikan kepala daerah, khususnya gubernur (kepala daerah provinsi).