'Outside’ Certified Mediators Begin Practicing at Courts

Sitting from left: Representative from Jakarta Religious Affairs Ministry, Deputy Chief Justice Andi Syamsu Alam, Chief Justice Ahmad Kamil, BP4 Chairman, Taufik, and Chief Judge of PTA Jakarta, Kholilurrahman. Standing are the mediators who will begin practicing at Jakarta Religious Courts.

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In line with the obligation to carry out mediation as instructed by Perma (Supreme Court Regulation) No. 1/2008, Religious Courts are making collaboration with BP4 (Agency for Counseling, Fostering and Perpetuating Marriage) to provide mediators in the courts.

Seventeen mediators have been publicly introduced. These mediators, who will be practicing in Religious Courts throughout Jakarta, are mostly retirees from Religious Affairs Department and ex-judges of Religious Courts (PA) and High Religious Courts (PTA).

“I submit these mediators to Jakarta’s PAs through PTA Jakarta,” H. Taufik, Chairman of BP4 said on Tuesday (8/6/2010) before Vice Chief Justice for Non-Judicial Matters, Deputy Chief Justice for Religious Courts, Chief Judges of PTAs, Chief Judges of PAs across Jakarta, and other invitees.

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Taufik said those mediators have followed a special training and obtained certificates from IICT (Indonesian Institute for Conflict Transformation). Taufik hoped they can perform their tasks to resolve disputes of civil cases at Religious Courts.

Meanwhile, Chief Justice H. Ahmad Kamil recalled the importance of mediation to be carried out in accordance with the regulated procedures. He therefore hoped judges to assume mediation as a necessity not an obligatory. 

“If the mediation you performed wasn’t right, your verdicts would be legally annulled and flaw,” he asserted. On behalf of Supreme Court leadership, Ahmad Kamil also expressed gratefulness to BP4 for providing certified mediators.