Chief Justice Harifin A. Tumpa to Sign MoU
with Australian Courts

Aria Suyudi and Wiwiek from JRTO were on a serious meeting with Leisha and Nicola

Melbourne| badilag.net (27/7)

The Chief Justice Dr. Harifin A. Tumpa, SH, MH will sign a MoU at the end of September or the beginning of October 2011. The MoU is the judicial cooperation between the Supreme Court of Indonesia and the Family Court of Australia and the Federal Court of Australia.

The Chief Justice Family Court of Australia, the Hon Diana Bryant and the Chief Justice of Federal Court of Australia, the Hon Patrick Anthony Keane planned to come to Indonesia for signing of the MoU.

The MoU is supported by an annex explaining the detail cooperation. The purpose of the Annex is to identify activities to be conducted during the life of the MoU and to set out mechanisms for consultation, administration and implementation for this programme during 2010-2011.

AusAid to Make Video on Information Desk

Jakarta|badilag.net (20/7/2011)
Australian-Indonesian Partnership for Justice (AIPJ) plans to make a video on Information Desk. The video will explain how an information desk ideally operates in the Family Court of Australia (FCoA) as well as in the Religious Court of Indonesia.

“The video will be presented in a Training of Training on the Information Desk that we will hold at the end of this year”, Nicola Colbran, the program director of AIPJ, said in her meeting room at Cyber 2 Building, Jakarta, Tuesday (19/7/2011).

Nicola explained that the making of the video would take place at the Family Court of Australia. She and the Judicial Reform Team Office (JRTO) of the Supreme Court of Indonesia as well as the delegation from Badilag would visit the FCoA at the end of July.

Hon. Deputy Chief Justice Andi Syamsu Alam
Achieves Cum Laude from Doctoral Program of UGM

Dr. H. Andi Sjamsu Alam, SH, MH. (fifth from left) with Examiners

Yogyakarta | Badilag.net (13-07-2011)

Andi Syamsu Alam, the Deputy Chief Justice for the Religious Court Affairs, has graduated from the doctoral program on philosophical science at Gadjah Mada University of Yogyakarta with cum laude degree, Tuesday (12/7/2011). He is the 68th alumnus of the philosophical science program at that university and the third in this year.

In the opened oral examination, he successfully defended his dissertation titled Capacity of Marriage in Perspective of Law Philosophy and Its Contribution to the Development of Marriage Law in Indonesia.

People are Enthusiastic With Posbakum

Jakarta|badilag.net (10/7/2011)

Since March until May 2011, there have been approximately 8623 people obtaining benefits from the Legal Aid Post (Posbakum) provided in 46 Religious Courts through out Indonesia. Whereas, the Directorate of the Religious Courts has target for only 11,553 people served in Posbakum. It means that the target exceeds 300 percents from the target. It can be assumed that the total people utilizing Posbakum will reach 34,492 after 12 months.