Guidelines on Access to Justice for the Poor
The Poor and marginalized need simple guidelines on how to access to courts. From left to right: DG of Badilag, Wahyu Widiana, AusAID Counsellor, Victoria Coakley, and PEKKA National Coordinator, Nani Zulminarni.
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Director General of Badilag, Wahyu Widiana, said poor and marginalized people needed simple and easy-to-understand guidelines on how to access services provided by Indonesian courts. Wahyu made the statements when officially opening a two-day workshop of formulating guidelines for the poor on access to justice, in Bogor (5/5).
The workshop was held by PEKKA, a national NGO, in collaboration with AusAID. A number of participants coming from different institutions attended this meeting. Also present in the workshop were AusAID Counsellor Victoria Coakley, AIPJT AusAID Adviser Cate Sumner, CEO Family Court of Australia Leisha Lister and AIPJT Project Manager Mark Prudent.
“The guidelines resulted from this workshop will much help the poor in accessing to justice,” Victoria Coakley said.
.The workshop was hoped to result integrated guidelines since it involved competent institutions such Badilag (Religious Courts Body), Badilum (General Court Body), The Office of Civil Registry, National Commission for Women, LBH (Legal Aid Institution) APIK, and YLBHI Jakarta.
Nani Zulminarni, National Coordinator of PEKKA, hoped the guidelines would later be provided and disseminated through various media such as booklet, leaflet, CD audio visual and also the internet.
Ten Years of Cooperation
Victoria Coakley said many things that had been done during more than ten years of cooperation between the government of Australia (AusAID) and the government of Indonesia (the Supreme Court) in terms of enhancing access to justice. She admitted she was happy with the issuance of Presidential Instruction No. 3/2010 which supports the poor and marginalized in accessing to justice by providing facilities such as prodeo cases, circuit court, and legal aid.
Wahyu Widiana spoke the same voice. “We very much benefit from the cooperation between AusAID and the Supreme Court. IT usage, judgments publication, client services are among the examples,” he said.