Jakarta | badilag.net/english (21/12)

The State Minister for Administrative Reforms, Evert Ernest Mangindaan, said reforms in the Supreme Court bureaucracy was still ongoing because the supervision has not been evaluated by an independent team. “The evaluation and monitoring results are not yet available,” he told reporters at the vice presidential office yesterday.

Badilag develops ‘online timesheet’ to control performance

Bogor | badilag.net/english (17/12)

Badilag is developing an online supervision program which is called timesheet. This web-based application is aimed to measure staff performance during workdays. Detailed activities of all staff members can be seen and monitored through this program.

“This program can enhance work performance of all staff members. Yet, this is only a tool that its success highly depends on us as the users,” said Endra Jumhana, Head Division of Management and Organization in the Badilag.

“All officials from echelons I, II and some from echelon III have already begun using this program. Through intensive socialization and not in a very long time, all staff are expected to use this time sheet,” Head Division of Personnel Affairs, Siti Zubaidah, said.

Badilag.net Arabic version now available on the web

Three faces of www.badilag.net: English, Bahasa and Arabic.

Bandung | badilag.net/english (13/12)

The objective of badilag.net Arabic version is for improving the quality of Human Resources in Indonesian Religious Courts in addition to meeting public expectation as expressed by Chief Judges of High Religious Courts when the English version was launched, said Wahyu Widiana, DG of Badilag, on Friday (11/12) in Bandung, West Java.

“A huge number of Religious Courts’ legal sources is in Arabic literatures. Consequently, Religious Courts officers, judges in particular, must possess Arabic skills. Thus, the Arabic version website can be made as a strategic media to improve those skills,” Wahyu Widiana said.

Online divorce application in Australia

DG of Badilag : Our legal system does not yet permit such application

Jakarta | badilag.net/english (12/12)

People in Australia can file their divorce application online. This service, which was first introduced in August 2008 and has been recently implemented by the Family Law Courts (the Family Court and Federal Magistrates Court), is deemed beneficial for litigants who can efile (submit) their divorce applications through the Commonwealth Courts portal.

As reported by www.familycourt.gov.au, over 400 registered users have used this application to file divorce cases electronically since last September. According to Richard Foster, CEO of the Family Law Courts, this web-based application is aimed to improve access to justice, particularly for self represented litigants who comprise 85% of divorce applicants.

Nevertheless, applicants can not automatically have their cases finalized without having to come to the court. “It does not mean that people can get divorced online, this service simply provides people with an alternative way to file their applications, in addition to the traditional way by post or in person at a family law registry,” Richard Foster, who is also the Vice President of IACA International, said as quoted by familycourt.gov.au.