Not just a piece of paper

The state’s requirements for marriage registration disadvantage poor rural women

Jakarta | Badilag.net/english (16/11)

Poverty is still a major barrier for people to access to Courts. According to the recent joint survey funded by IALDF, the main barriers for the poor to accessing the Courts are financial and relate to court fees and transportation costs for travel to the court. But apparently the poor faces more problems related to their marriage registrations and formal legal identities, resulting in their lack of access to Courts.

The article entitled “Not just a piece of paper” by Maria Platt, a PhD student at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society at La Trobe University, is trying to describe a real condition of a divorced woman with three children in Lombok, who has difficulties in accessing Religious Courts and other legal rights.

This article first appeared in Inside Indonesia. The writer has given permission to the administrator to publish her article on this website. Here is the article: 

Aceh Sharia Court pioneers gender equity

Jakarta | badilag.net/english (6/11)

Mahkamah Syar’iyah Aceh (Aceh Sharia Court) published a book entitled “A Compilation of References for Standardized Evaluation for Judges in Implementing Gender Sensitivity at Aceh Sharia Court.” This publication emerges as a response to the absence of a clear measurement in implementing gender equity in courts. 

Prof. Rusjdi Ali Muhammad, editor of the book, said the book was hoped to open judges’ insight in implementing gender equity when, particularly, examining family law cases. Prof. Rusjdi along with the writers of the book were among the delegates led by Chief Judge of Aceh Sharia Court, M. Saleh Puteh, that paid an official visit to Badilag last Friday (6/11).

Director General for Badilag, Wahyu Widiana, highly appreciates the publication of the book, saying that despite its local value -the book is written based on judges personal experiences at Sharia Courts-, the book can be a reference/guidance for other judges at Religious Courts throughout Indonesia.

Deputy Chief Justice, Andi Syamsu Alam:

Modern Society must be served with modern working facilities

Bandung | badilag.net/english (3/11)

He further said that modernizing Indonesian Courts has been a national agenda of the Supreme Court since a couple of years ago.

Based on his personal experiences of comparative studies in several foreign countries, Indonesia, Andi said, needs to adopt the usage of modern technology and facilities for improving public services. In California, he exemplified, abundant justice seekers coming to the courts can be satisfyingly handled using modern working facilities. Public gets fast and sophisticated services from the courts.