Badilag and Egyptian Ambassador to Make Cooperation

Jakarta l Badilag.net

Egyptian Embassy agreed to make a cooperation with the Directorate General of the Religious Courts relating to program for human resource improvement.

The cooperation will also involve scholarship for post graduate and doctoral program and short course. Both parties were committed to realize the cooperation as soon as possible.

Purwosusilo, the Director General of the Religious Courts (Badilag) and Farid Ismail, the Secretary of Badilag met Baha Dessouk, the Egyptian Ambassador, on Friday (08/03/2013). Syekh Sami al-Jamal, a professor from Al-Azhar University also attended the meeting.

Purwosusilo explained that there are approximately 3,500 judges in 359 religious courts across Indonesia.

To enhance and improve capacity of judges, Badilag had made some cooperation with some institutions. According to Purwosusilo, Egypt is the center of civilization in Islam and therefore such cooperation is needed.

 

. Purwosusilo also said that one important jurisdiction of the Religious Courts is to handle Sharia economic cases. It is explicitly stated in Law No. 3 of 2006. This jurisdiction is relatively new for the Religious Courts.

 

Syekh Sami al-Jamal said that he was very happy for the proposed cooperation.

“We can involve al-Azhar University to run this cooperation,” he said.

Purwosusilo plans to invite Syekh Sami Jamil to Badilag’s office to discuss on the cooperation more detail.

(Rahmat Arijaya)