Chief Justice signed the MoU annex with FCA and FCoA

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Chief Justice, the Honorable DR. Hatta Ali, SH., MH. signed the annex of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Federal Court of Australia (FCA) and Family Court of Australia (FCoA) on Wednesday (10/03/2012), at Harry Gibbs Commonwealth Law Courts Building, Federal Court of Australia, Brisbane, Queensland. The Federal Court of Australia was represented by the Chief Justice, the Honorable PA. Keane, and Family Court of Australia by the Chief Justice, the Honorable Diana Bryant.

The last time the signature of MoU among the Indonesia Supreme Court, Federal Court of Australia and Family Court of Australia was conducted on July 21st, 2008 and renewed every year by signing the annex. Meanwhile the first MoU among the three judiciaries was conducted in 2004. The annex of MoU contains certain judicial cooperation prevailed for one year as the breakdown of MoU. And the scope of the annex this year includes mediation, small claim court, business process reengineering, apprentice program, and class action.

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World Bank: Religious Courts are able to empower the poor

Jakarta | Badilag.net

The World Bank assessed the Religious Courts can play a major role in the empowerment of the poor, especially the women-headed households by providing a definite legal status.

“A definite legal status is useful to enable the poor to access government services, such as health insurance, subsidised rice, or even cash transfer.” The Senior Counsel of World Bank, Sonja Litz said in Jakarta, on Wednesday (19/09/2012), as quoted by Antaranews.com.

According to Sonja, such legal status can not be obtained by most poor women who become the heads of household. The number of women headed household based on the data of the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) has reached 10 million people or 14 percents of the 65 million families in Indonesia as a whole.

Destiny of Legal Aid Post in 2013

Jakarta l Badilag.net

Farid Ismail, Secretary of Badilag, hoped that Indonesian government pay attention to Legal Aid Post which has been well operated in 69 Religious Courts. He conveyed his hope during a talk show on Law of Legal Aid, in Jakarta, Monday (1/10/2012). This talk show program was held by Radio 68 H in cooperation with BPHN (National Law Development Agency).

Law No. 16 of 2011 mandates that the Ministry of Law and Human Rights will organize Legal Aid Post. The Supreme Courts will not run Legal Aid Post any more due to the budget has been moved to the Ministry of Law and Human Rights in 2013.

According to Farid Ismail, his institution still run two programs related to access to justice for poor, namely prodeo case (waiving court fees) and circuit court.

“The budget for both facilities is still allocated for the Supreme Court, except for legal aid post,” Farid Ismail said.

Supreme Court and Judicial Commission Signed Four Joint Rules

Dr. H. M. Hatta Ali, SH.,MH, chief justice of Supreme Court and Prof.Dr.H.Eman Suparman, SH.,MH, chairman of Judicial Commission signed Four Joint Rules, Thursday (27/9/2012). The rules involve 1). guidance on strengthening code of conduct of judges, 2). procedure of joint investigation, 3). procedure of works, decision making by panel of honorary judges and 4). judge selection.

The signing took place at Wiryono Room, at Supreme Court building. It was attended by leaderships of Supreme Court, leaderships of Judicial Commission, liaison officers and assistance team.

According to Hatta Ali, the signing has been planned long time ago which is facilitated by assistance team from both institutions.

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