No sleep and No cell phones in the court room

Jakarta | badilag.net/english (23/11)

Chief Justice Hon. Harifin A. Tumpa has issued a regulation that strongly prohibits judges to sleep and use cellular phones while examining cases in the court room.

Judges are also obliged to speak politely. The Supreme Court Regulation is to respond the finding of the Commission III in the parliament highlighting few judges who fall asleep in the court room.

“I’ve signed (the regulation),” said Harifin to the press on Friday (20/11) in the Supreme Court building, Medan Merdeka Street, Jakarta.

Justice for the poor, the world’s big concern

Indonesian participants in 4th IACA conference, from left to right: Chief Judge of Central Jakarta District Court, Syahrial Sidik, Justice Marina Sidabutar, Deputy Chief Justice for Development, Widayatno, DG of Badilag, Wahyu Widiana, Head of Public Relation Affairs, Nurhadi, and Chief of Taxation Court, Djazoeli Sadhani.

Jakarta | badilag.net/english (23/11)

Access to justice for the poor has become a big concern of International communities. Many countries have ensured the poor to access to justice. Indonesia and Australia, for example, have long held circuit courts for people living in remote areas and facing barriers to travel to courts.

Different from those two countries, Guatemala applies a unique form of ensuring this access. This country uses mobile courts as a media for the poor to access the court. Mobile courts employ buses that have been designed in such comfortable and feasible way for justice seekers to get satisfactory services.

All court services from registration, consultation and sessions are conducted inside the buses. The buses are regularly launched to remote areas whose dwellers are mostly poor. We may know this kind of service in Indonesia as Perpustakaan Keliling (mobile library) and Puskesmas Keliling (mobile public health services).

Chief Justice: Case brokers must be eradicated

Supreme Court denies ICW’s accusation of corruption cases

KPK (Corruption Eradication Commission) leader, Tumpak Hatorangan, meeting with Chief Justice, Hon. Harifin A. Tumpa. (photo: vivanews)

Jakarta | badilag.net/english (18/11)

Chief Justice, Hon. Harifin A. Tumpa, said, as quoted by vivanews.com, that the Supreme Court is determined to eradicate case brokers in the Indonesian courts. The Supreme Court, he added, has in fact undertaken some serious efforts to stamp out these court case brokerages since years ago.

“We have set regulations stipulating that judges must not receive guests from disputing parties, moreover those who will file cases,” Harifin said at a press conference Wednesday (18/11).

In addition, Harifin went on, the Supreme Court prohibits judges from accepting any gifts. Such regulation has been formulated in the code of ethics for judges when handling cases. And the Court strictly abides by the code, he said.

Supreme Court promotes its 2010-2034 blueprints worldwide

Jakarta | badilag.net/english (17/11)

Richard Foster, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Family Court of Australia appreciated Widayatno Sastro Hardjono, Deputy Chief Justice for Development in the Supreme Court, for the presentation delivered in the plenary session of the 4^th conference of IACA (International Association for Court Administration) last 2-4 November in Istanbul, Turkey.

This appreciation was conveyed through Wahyu Widiana, Director General for Badilag, shortly after the presentation. “It’s great,” Richard Foster said.

Widayatno presented a paper entitled “Judicial Transparency: An Indonesian Courts Experience”. In his paper, the Deputy Chief Justice spoke about the accomplishments that the Supreme Court has achieved all this time. Blueprint for 2010-2034 of the Supreme Court was also his main explanation.