Richard Foster, Vice President of IACA for Southern Asia and Australia when paying a courtesy call on Chief Justice, Harifin A. Tumpa Friday Morning (31/7).
Jakarta | Badilag.net/english (31/07/2009)
Chief Justice of the Indonesian Supreme Court, Dr. Harifin A. Tumpa, SH, MH received an invitation to participate in and give a presentation on the 4th conference of the International Association for Court Administration (IACA) that will be held next November in Istanbul, Turkey.
It was Richard Foster, IACA Vice President for Southern Asia and Australia, who directly conveyed the invitation to the Chief Justice at his working room this morning.
Richard, who is also the Chief Executive Officer of Family Court of Australia (FCoA), said the Chief Justice was invited to the conference since the Indonesian Supreme Court had made much progress particularly on transparency and judicial reform.
“That’s why we request the chief Justice to give a presentation on transparency and Indonesian Judicial System,” Richard Said.
.The Supreme Court asked to host next year’s gathering.
Furthermore, Richard Foster accompanied by his adviser, Leisha Lister and his colleagues from IALDF, Prof. Tim Lindsey and Cate Sumner, asked the Supreme Court to host IACA’s meeting next year.
The next meeting, which will be a regional meeting, is expected to be held in October 2010 after Idul Fitri (end of fasting month) day and after yearly working meeting of the Supreme Court and its subordinate courts.
From left to right: Wahyu Widiana (Director General of Badilag), Leisha Lister (FCoA), Cate Sumner (IALDF), Chief Justice of MA-RI, Richard Foster (IACA), Simon (Professional), and Prof. Tim Lindsey (IALDF).
Chief Justice’s Response.
Chief Justice of the Republic of Indonesia responded well to the IACA’s invitation saying he would come to the international conference in Istanbul this year.
“I myself will attend the conference. But should anything unexpected come up, I will send a delegate,” Harifin Tumpa said.
Concerning request to host the upcoming IACA’s meeting, Harifin said, “We will have to discuss it with the leadership in the Supreme Court.”
On this occasion, Harifin promptly asked Director General of Badilag, Wahyu Widiana to gather more detailed information on this scheduled IACA’s meeting to be further discussed within the Supreme Court’s leadership.
Richard Foster and the delegates seemed satisfied with the Chief Justice’s response. He promised to soon send detailed information of the meeting.
Jeffrey A Apperson, Executive Vice President of IACA (Rightmost, with red tie) facilitating Short Course for Supreme Court’s judges and officials in the USA February this year. Deputy Chief Justice for Civil Cases, Atja Sondjaja, SH (sitting in front) headed the Supreme Court delegation. The picture was taken in the hearing room of Washington DC Federal Court.
A Brief of IACA.
IACA is an international association for court administrators. It was established in the United States in 2004.
One of this association’s objectives is to enhance professionalism of court administrators throughout the world in providing services to pubic. Its activities therefore are concerned much with conferences, seminars, researches, sponsorships of international trainings, journal and website publishing, etc.
IACA held several International conferences; Ljubljana, Slovenia (2004), Verona, Italy (2006), and Dublin, Ireland (2008). The 2009 conference that will take place in Istanbul, Turkey is the 4th conference.
IACA is managed by Executive Board, Advisory Council and Advisory Board. Executive Board consists of President, Markus B Zimmer (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), Executive Vice President, Jeffrey A Apperson (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), and other officials.
IACA has assisted Indonesian Courts in performing trainings, short courses and comparative studies. A short course followed by judges and the Supreme Court’s officials in Washington DC and Maryland early this year, for example, was much aided by IACA’s members such as Jeffrrey A Apperson and Ralph Deloach. Ralph, also an Emeritus Vice President of IACA, frequently trained judges and court officials in Indonesia.
In order to easily coordinate its activities, IACA has appointed a regional vice president who is responsible for its particular region. This vice president is also a member of Advisory Board. Regions that have appointed their Vice Presidents are Middle Asia/India, Southern Asia & Australia, Middle East, Europe/Slovenia, North America/Canada, Africa and Middle/Southern America. In addition, IACA has its Vice President for International association.
For further information, please visit www.iaca.ws. IACA Address: IACA-106 Gene Snyder U.S. Courthouse, 601 West Broadway, Louisville, KY 40202 USA. (Adli Minfadli Robby/cho)