Judges Rewarded for Successful Mediation

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The Director General of the Religious Courts, Purwosusilo said that judges would be rewarded for successful mediation. It does not mean that judges failing to mediate parties would be punished. Judges will be promoted or transferred to certain courts.

Purwosusilo realized that hitherto there is no accurate data on mediation. Therefore, the Directorate General of the Religious Courts needs an accurate data on successful mediation. The data will be collected from all working units.

The data will be analyzed and used to take a certain important policy.

During 2012, it was reported that only 61,000 cases mediated. Of this number, there were only 3,000 cases which were successfully mediated. Meanwhile, all Religious Courts received more than 476,000 cases during that year.

The data above causes doubt whether it is accurate or not. Question may arises is why there was only 61,000 cases which were mediated? Meanwhile, the number cases received were 476,000 cases.

 

. Deep analysis from an accurate data is absolutely needed. For example, from the data it can be known which type of cases is mostly successfully mediated. It is also urgent to know what factors in successful mediation. Names of judges who are success in mediation will be also important to be recorded.

 

Mediation Center

The Directorate General of the Religious Courts will immediately create a “Mediation Center”. It has been supported by a justice, Prof. Takdir Rachmadi. He is also chairman of Mediation Working Group belongs to the Supreme Court.

Purwosusilo said that this Mediation Center will be used to collect the accurate data on mediation. The data will be analyzed. It will also provide many urgent materials on mediation in form of books, videos, etc. It will serve as a laboratory for mediation.

(Rahmat Arijaya)