[2] She has also taken non-formal courses on law making in Leiden, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Boston, and San Francisco.

[1] She first served as a justice of the Constitutional Court after she was requested to do so by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in 2008;[2] she had previously been asked by eight different women's rights organisations, but had refused.

[5] Yudhoyono's office appealed the ruling on behalf of the two justices,[6][7] succeeding after the Jakarta High Administrative Court found that the petition against the two of them lacked legal standing for the challenge.

[10] Farida is also a lecturer on legislation at the University of Indonesia; after becoming a constitutional justice, she kept the job because she feared that "if [she did not] teach it would be tempting for [her to] not read or not learn anything new".

[2] Farida believes that the Constitution of Indonesia guarantees equality between Indonesian men and women, but that its application has been lacking.