Technology Can Support Judicial Reform

DG of Badilag Wahyu Widiana (center) checking Information Desk at PTA Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan

Jakarta | badilag.net/english (5/4)

Director General of Religious Courts Body in the Supreme Court Wahyu Widiana for the umpteenth time emphasizes the importance of IT use to help realize transparency in the Indonesian judiciary.

“We no longer put Information Technology as our main program but its use and existence in every Religious Court has become a must. IT is a vital means to judicial transparency,” he said as quoted by pta-banjarmasin.go.id (5/4) when giving directions to participants at Regional Working Meeting of PTA (High Religious Court) Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan.

Supreme Court’s Annual Report

3.4 million cases resolved, 30 judges heavily sanctioned, 760 billion state-loss returned

Jakarta | badilag.net/English (1/3)

Annual report of the Supreme Court delivered by Chief Justice Hon. Harifin A. Tumpa on Thursday (25/2) reveals that in 2009 Indonesian first instance courts received a total of 3.546.854 cases, out of which 3.462.158 cases have been decided. The total decided cases were examined by four jurisdictions within the Court i.e. General, Religious, Administrative and Military Courts.

Quick and light criminal cases and traffic cases ranked the top position with the total 3.015.511 cases. Religious Courts cases came at the second with 274.545 cases followed by other civil and criminal cases in General Courts numbering 163.541 cases. Meanwhile, Administrative Court resolved 5.861 cases and Military Court decided 2.700 cases.

Sudan delegation posing together with judges form Mahkamah Syar'iyah Aceh when the delegation visited Aceh on Wednesday (24/2) to study the work of judiciary in autonomous region of Aceh.

Jakarta | badilag.net/english (25/2)

Supreme Court Chief Justice, Harifin A. Tumpa, received a courtessy call from Sudanese Supreme Court delegation on Monday (22/2). The delegation consists of 2 high court judges, 6 judges from first instance courts and 2 representatives from the  Department of International Development, the United Kingdom that sponsors this visit.

Chief Justice, accompanied by Vice Chief Justice, Abdul Kadir Mappong, Vice Coordinator for reform Team, Prof. Takdir Rahmadi, Justice Prof. Abdul Gani Abdullah, warmly welcomed the delegation that arrived in Indonesia on Saturday (20/2)

Prof. Bagir Manan:

Risky, Formalizing Sharia Law into Positive Law

Jakarta | badilag.net/english (22/2)

Prof. Bagir Manan, former Supreme Court Chief Justice, said there were a number of risks to formalize sharia law into positive law. First, it will ideologically undermine sharia law since the choice of law will further give precedence to positive law over sharia. In addition, there will be secularization (not secularism) of sharia law, i.e. marriage law.

Prof. Bagir asserted those statements when presenting his paper at the national seminar on Religious Courts’ Substantive Law in Jakarta (19/2).