AIPJ Collects Data on Legal Identity in the Religious Courts

 

 

Makassar l Badilag.net

Australia-Indonesia Partnership for Justice (AIPJ) is collecting data on legal identity from some Religious Courts involving South Sulawesi, Flores, Lombok, West Java and North Sumatera. Legal identity consists of birth certificate, marriage certificate and divorce certificate.

Besides, AIPJ is also collecting data from General Courts, Department of Population and Civil, Office of Education, Office of Health, Office of Social, Regional Office of Ministry of Law and Human Rights, Central Bureau of Statistic, Legal Aid, NGO and universities.

According to Wahyu Widiana, a senior adviser of AIPJ, legal identity is absolutely important. It is required to fulfill some basic needs regarding social economic, fair justice, and legal information.

 

. Wahyu Widiana also said that those three legal documents are connected each other. He explained that AIPJ delivers program of access to justice that is funded by Australian government through AusAID. AIPJ focuses on access to justice for the poor, women, children and people with disabilities.

 

“The Religious Courts are regarded successful in implementing programs of circuit court, fee waiver, and legal aid post,” he said.

Drs. H. Alimin Patawari, S.H.,M.H, Chief of the High Religious Court of Makassar said that some Religious Courts made cooperation with local governments in carrying out trial of marriage legalization.

He said that this hearing had successfully helped approximately 300 people who needed legal identity. This number will be predictably increased to 800 people in 2013.

(Rahmat Arijaya)