Badilag to Launch Paperless Case Reporting System

Director General of Badilag, Drs. H. Purwosusilo, SH., MH., (right) and Director of Badilag's Administration, Tukiran, SH., MM.

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Badilag (Directorate General of the Religious Courts) is determined to employ paperless case reporting system. A number of stages for the launch of the system have been completely prepared, such as the already-established online case information, validation and monitoring of case data nationwide.

To accelerate the use of paperless reporting system, the National Team of Badilag’s SIADPA Plus are now perfecting the online reporting menus available at www.infoperkara.badilag.net. The website contains all data pertaining to the progress report of case management within the religious courts across Indonesia. Anyone can access this website and find out the progress of the case data handled by the courts.

“Very soon, Badilag and all Religious High Courts all over Indonesia are able to easily print out the case reporting submitted by religious courts throughout Indonesia. The data are taken from the SIADPA Plus application used by the religious courts. The data can also be converted to excel and pdf formats,” Director of Badilag Administration, Tukiran, SH., MM., said last Wednesday (25/9/2013).

(Achmad Cholil)

Judge Baumann of Australia’s Federal Circuit Court Visits Badilag

Judge Michael Baumann from the Federal Circuit Court of Australia sharing experiences on case management system with Badilag and Badilum officials

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Judge Michael Bauman of the Federal Circuit Court of Australia paid a visit to the Supreme Court Secretariat Building located at Jalan Ahmad Yani, Central Jakarta on Tuesday (24/9/2013). Badilag (Directorate General for the Religious Courts) was one of his targets.

The aim of the Australian judge’s visit was to study the case management systems developed by Indonesian courts, CTS of Badilum (General Courts) and SIADPA of Badilag. He also shared Australia’s experience in managing case administration, especially that of the Federal Circuit Court.

Arrived at Badilag around 10am, Judge Baumann was warmly welcomed by DG Badilag, Purwosusilo and other top officials from Badilag and Badilum. A day before, Judge Bauman visited the Supreme Court and met with Justices in the morning and visited South Jakarta Religious Court in the afternoon.

Baumann said that, different from Indonesia, Australia has two court structures; federal courts and state courts. Australia began to establish the federal courts in 1901. The Federal Circuit Court, where Bauman sits as a judge, is a trial court and was established in 2000. This court has jurisdictions over civil, family law, commercial, bankruptcy, copyright, industrial, admiralty, immigration and discrimination cases. .

Religious Courts Need to Show Typical Characteristics of Their Judgments

Former Vice Chief Justice, Syamsuhadi Irsyad (center), Justice Habiburrahman (right) and DG Badilag Purwosusilo (left)

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Religious Courts judges should reveal a distinct characteristic in their judgments so as to distinguish them from other Indonesian courts decisions. The specificity of the judgments should not only be marked by the sentence ‘Bismillahirrahmanirrahim’ but also by quoting verses of the Quran or hadith to support their legal considerations.

Dr. H. Syamsuhadi Irsyad, SH., M.Hum, former Vice Chief Justice, made the above statements when delivering a speech on the coordination meeting with Chief Judges and Vice Chief Judges of Indonesia’s High Religious Courts in Jakarta on 12 September 2013.

“I hope all (Religious Courts) judges use verses of the Quran or hadith in addition to using the Acts and legislation when making court verdicts,” Syamsuhadi said.

Religious Court Judges Urged to Undertake Law Reform

Right to left: DJ Badilag Drs. Purwosusilo, SH., MH, Former Chief Justice Prof. Bagir Manan, Chief of Chamber for Religious Court Civil Cases Dr. Andi Syamsu Alam, and moderator Dr. Hasbi Hasan

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Indonesia’s religious Court judges are urged to more actively find the law in making court decisions. The finding of law is needed not only to pursue justice but also to stimulate law reform in Indonesia.

Former Chief Justice, Prof. Bagir Manan, raised the above statements on Tuesday (27/8/2013) at Badilag’s office in Jakarta when delivering his speech as the main speaker of legal discussion round 2.

He said that the road to law finding in Islam was wide open through the means of ijtihad, an effort which had even been done hundreds of centuries ago by the Caliph Umar ibn Khattab.

Prof. Bagir added that law finding was mostly done by judges in countries embracing the common law system. However, Indonesian judges who adhere to the civil law system can still perform the finding of law.