Director General: Courts Must Focus on Court Excellence

Director General of Badilag, Wahyu Widiana (center), Chief of PTA Manado, Aminullah Amit (right) and Vice Chief of PTA, Fachrori Umar (left)

Manado, badilag.net/english (14/08/2009)

All leaderships within Religious Courts under PTA (High Religious Court) Manado are asked to develop and implement Court Excellence concepts in carrying out their daily tasks.

Director General of Badilag, Wahyu Widiana demanded this when opening RAKERDA (Rapat Kerja Daerah/Regional Working Meeting) of PTA Manado, North Sulawesi and its subordinate Religious Courts last night (13/8) at PTA Manado’s hall.

Wahyu further insisted that applying the Court Excellence principles would automatically embody justice seekers’ satisfaction and regain public trust.

Badilag and National Commission on Violence against Women to Enhance Capacity of Religious Courts’ Judges

Director General of Badilag, Director for Judicial Officer Development and Head Sub-Directorate for Fostering Judicial Officer disscuss with Commissioners of National Commission on Women at Badilag’s office.

Jakarta | badilag.net/english (12/8)

The ToT is a follow-up of the previous training on Socialization of Reference Book of Domestic Violence for Religious Courts’ judges held October last year. A meeting to organize the program was held between the National Commission on Women and Directorate General of Badilag yesterday (11/8) at Badilag’s office, Jakarta.

Association of Sharia Intellectuals and Scholars (HISSI) to launch i-syari’ah Journal this Ramadhan

Director General of Badilag: Sharia alumni are well-qualified to compete

i-syari’ah journalists interview Director General of Badilag, Wahyu Widiana, at his working room.

 Jakarta | badilag.net/english (11/8)

Association of Indonesian Sharia Intellectuals and Scholars (Himpunan Ilmuan dan Sarjana Syari’ah Indonesia/HISSI) which held its first National Congress December last year is beginning to show its existence. The organization headed by Prof. Dr. H. M. Amin Suma, MA, SH, MM now possesses a journal, i-syari’ah, that will be launched soon before Ramadhan. Journalists of the journal visited the Director General of Badilag, Wahyu Widiana, this Tuesday morning (11/8).

Answering some questions proposed by i-syariah’s journalists, Wahyu Widiana explained the most recent development of Religious Court after one-roof system under the Supreme Court. He said graduates of sharia faculty, now accommodated in HISSI, could show their excellent capability and moreover compete equally with their counterparts from other law faculty alumni in the Supreme Court.

“One chairman in the Supreme Court is in fact a sharia graduate. He was chosen not by appointment but through direct election within plenary session of Supreme Justices.”

Prof. Mark Cammack:

www.badilag.net has been a big help

Jakarta, Badilag.net/english (5/8/2009)

Prof. Mark Cammack, a law professor of Southwestern Law School Los Angeles, California, acknowledged that Badilag’s website had been very helpful for him to search data and most recent information about Religious Courts in Indonesia.

“www.badilag.net has been a very big help for me,” he said.

The Professor, who is very familiar to Religious Court, visited his old friend, the Director General of Badilag, Wahyu Widiana this morning (5/8) at West Pegangsaan Street, Jakarta.

“I access the Badilag’s website all the time. This site always renews its data and information on the development of Religious Courts throughout Indonesia,” he said.