High Religious Court Website Assessment,
What are the Results?

All Indonesia's High Religious Courts have websites on the internet. And most of the websites provide quite complete data needed by the public.

Jakarta l Badilag.net/english

NLRP (Indonesia-the Netherlands National Legal Reform Programs), a national institution funded by the Netherlands Government, has released its assessment results on the websites of Indonesia’s High Religious Courts. The assessment results were published on the Quarterly Fact Sheet, 4^th edition, last December.

According to the assessment, PTA (High Religious Court) Surabaya, East Java, gains the top position with a perfect score (32 points), beating the other 28 PTAs across Indonesia.

PTA Ambon’s website sits as a runner-up with 30 points. 3^rd position until 5^th position respectively are PTA Banjarmasin (26 points), PTA Yogyakarta (26 points), and PTA Mataram (23 points). Meanwhile, PTA Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara gets the last position with 7 points. .

One Director at Badilag Retires

H.M. Zuffran Sabrie (standing) giving a farewell speech.

Jakarta l badilag.net/english

Starting 1 February 2011, Director for the Development of Judicial Officer at Badilag, H.M. Zuffran Sabrie, retired after almost 32 years serving at the Directorate of Religious Courts. Pak Zuffran, was born in 1951 in Sibolga, South Sumatera.

He started his carrier at Religious Court of Buntok, Central Kalimantan. He was then moved to the Ministry of Religious Affairs in Jakarta as the Head Subdivision at the Directorate for the Development of Religious Courts. Starting 2004 he was trusted to hold the top position at the Directorate for the Development of Religious Courts Officers until he retired at the age of 60. .

Collaboration of Religious Courts and NGOs for ‘Justice for the Poor’

A PEKKA member giving a souvenir to Mrs. Wahyu Widiana after the dialog.

Cianjur, West Java | Badilag.net/english

Director General (DG) Badilag, Wahyu Widiana, persistently makes efforts to promote the implementation of ‘Justice for the Poor’ (J4P) programs. On Wednesday (26/1), DG visited PEKKA Center in Cianjur, West Java.

As frequently reported by badilag.net, PEKKA is a national non-profit organization which was established to empower disadvantaged women to become independent and gain access and control over their private and social lives.

”PEKKA is very close to and supported by local government,” said Ade Yayat, Head of PEKKA Cianjur, when leading the meeting with DG Badilag. .

Badilag.net: More Contents, More Visitors

BADILAG IT TEAM. Clockwise: Endah Purnamasari, Helmi Indra Mahyuddin,
Iwan Kartiwan, Hirpan Hilmi, Ridwan Anwar, and Hermansyah.

Jakarta | badilag.net/english

The official website of Directorate General of Religious Courts, www.badilag.net, has gained much more attention from Indonesian public, especially religious courts community. The number of visitors of the website which was established in 2006 shows a significant increase.

During 2010, badilag.net was approximately clicked 15,750 times per day. While in 2009 the website was hit 10,800 times per day. “Thus, the number of visitors of the website went up more than 50 % from 2009 to 2010,” said Hirpan Hilmi, Head Sub Division of Information and Documentation.