The Importance of News on Circuit Court

A panel of judges from North Jakarta Religious Court are hearing a civil case through circuit court held in Kepulauan Seribu (Thousand Islands), the outermost area of the jurisdiction.

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If we type keywords “sidang keliling”  (circuit court) through Google search engine, then we will be displayed around 11.600 to 167.000 results, most of which are about the news on circuit courts carried out by Religious Courts across Indonesia.

This is surely a good news. Due to the transparency developed by the Religious Courts, particularly on reporting circuit court, people are now more informed that justice for the poor is no longer a lip service but has been actually implemented.

Chief Judges of High Courts Receive Change Management Training

CHANGE MANAGEMENT: The Supreme Court provides training on Change Management for Chief Judges of high courts from four jurisdictions. Standing: Chief Justice Harifin A. Tumpa. Sitting: Deputy Chief Justice Widayatno Sastro Hardjono and Chief of the Supreme Court Training Center Anwar Usman.

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After having held Sharing Workshop Program on Change Management for the Supreme Court leadership, justices and officials from echelon I, the Supreme Court’s training center has now provided a similar training for chief judges of high courts from four jurisdictions.

In collaboration with Rheinald Kasali’s Change Management Consulting (Rumah Perubahan) and funded by The Asia Foundation, the training for the chief judges was opened Monday (17/5) by Chief Justice Harifin A. Tumpa.  51 participants from General, Religious, Administrative and Military Courts joined the training which lasts 3 days (17 to 19 May 2010).

IACA to Hold Regional Conference in Jakarta

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President of IACA (The International Association for Court Administration), Richard Foster, along with the Supreme Court of Indonesia will host the IACA Regional Conference in Jakarta, March 14 to 16, 2011.

The theme of the conference will be Access to Justice and will incorporate themes such as public trust and confidence, court services and the public’s access to court  and implementing a Court Excellence Framework.

The organizing committee, chaired by Richard Foster includes the following:

Judge Candidate Training Focuses on Developing Personality, Integrity and Capability

Chief Justice Harifin A. Tumpa is pinning participant identity cards on to three representatives of judge candidates as a symbol of official opening of the training.

The Supreme Court Training Center has set to develop three main pillars of good human resources which must be possessed by all judge candidates after following the training. The three pillars are personality, integrity and capability.

Judge candidates are the asset of the Supreme Court. “On their shoulders lies the future of the Indonesian judiciary,’ Chief Justice Harifin A. Tumpa said recently (4/5) after officially opening the fifth judge candidate training in the training center, Bogor West Java.