Badilag-Family Court of Australia Again Hold A Mediation Workshop
Nusa Dua | Badilag.net
For the third time in this year, Directorate General of Badilag in cooperation with the Family Court of Australia held a mediation workshop. The current workshop facilitated by Australia-Indonesia Partnership for Justice (AIPJ) is conducted for three days, November 21st –23rd, 2012 in Nusa Dua, Bali.
Thirty judges become the participant of the workshop. The total number is the same as it was conducted on March and December this year.
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The thirty judges consist of seven appeal judges and twenty six judges from the first instance religious court. Of them all, twenty four are men and the rests are women.
The secretary of Directorate General of Badilag, Farid Ismail, when opening the workshop said that the workshop is very beneficial for the judges of religious court. However, the judges are needed to be capable in performing mediation, as it was stated in the Regulation of the Supreme Court Number 1 of 2008.
“I am sure that the participants often perform mediation. But have you ever learned how is the good mediation conducted? Here we learn.” Farid Ismail said.
Even the legal and court systems of Indonesia and Australia are fairly different, it does not mean that the technical know how and experiences which will be shared by the faciltators from Australia are useless for the judges of religious court.
“The success rate of mediation in Australia is so high. We learn from the Family Court.” Farid Ismail insisted.
Leisha Lister agreed with the statement of the Secretary. She admitted, there are some differences between mediation in Australia and Indonesia. “But we can learn together to provide the best service for the justice seekers. We learn theory and train the role play. Those will be very beneficial.” She said.
Will remain to be continued
So far, the number of judges who ever had attended mediation training are still low. “Of 4.000 judges of the religious court, those who have attended the mediation training held by AIPJ are just 90 judges. And those who have attended the training held by the Center of Education and Training (Pusdiklat) of the Supreme Court are only 298 judges.” Farid Ismail revealed.
Considering the fact, the judges who had attended the mediation training are expected to share their knowledge to their fellow judges in their workplace.
On the other side, the AIPJ is expected to continue conducting the same training, so that more judges will have an opportunity to enhance their knowledge and skill in performing mediation.
“We hope that AIPJ will not stop here. We still have more judges who have not ever attended the mediation training.” Farid Ismail revealed.
The desire of Badilag pertaining the matters get a positive responds. Craig Ewers, the Deputy Program of AIPJ stated that the cooperation in training mediation has been written in the MoU annex between the Family Court and the Supreme Court, which was signed on October last year.
“Mediation will be prioritized for the next year,” Craig said. Therefore, he expected at the end of the training, the participants would share their inputs on how to continue the cooperation to increase the mediation skill, so that AIPJ will be able to facilitate a better training in the future.
[Mohammad Noor]