Decision Quality Improvement Will Be Focus of Cooperation

Jakarta | Badilag.net

Australia Indonesia Partnership for Justice (AIPJ) and the Directorate General of the Religious Courts continue to run some programs of cooperation. One main focus will be on decision enhancement program.

Purwosusilo, the Director General of Badilag said that good decisions can enhance access of people to justice, particularly for women, children, and marginalized.

He emphasized on the importance of good decision when he discussed with Craig Ewers, the Team Leader of AIPJ in his working room, Wednesday (3/4/2013). Craig Ewers is the new director of AIPJ. He substitutes Nicola Colbran who serves as registrar at Federal Court of Australia.

Accompanied by Binziad Kadafi and Peter Demeij, Craig Ewers visited Badilag’s office to talk about some program of cooperation between two institutions.

“We are promoting some programs relating to rights of legal identity, fair and accessible justice and legal information,” Craig said to Purwosusilo who was accompanied by Farid Ismail, Achmad Cholil and Rahmat Arijaya.

Craig also said that AIPJ continues to hold some mediation trainings for judges and make website assessment. Both programs were successfully conducted in 2011 and 2012.

Purwosusilo agreed that mediation training for judges is very important in providing skills and knowledge for judges on how to mediate parties.

Farid Ismail, the secretary of Badilag realized that many judges had not been involved in such training due to insufficient budget.

Training for Decision Quality Improvement

Badilag plans to hold at least four trainings of decision quality improvement this year. The training will include substantive and procedural law.

Some decisions of the Religious Courts will be chosen to discuss in many perspectives. A comparison study with the best international practices will be also taken.

(Achmad Cholil | Rahmat Arijaya)

AIPJ Collects Data on Legal Identity in the Religious Courts

Makassar l Badilag.net

Australia-Indonesia Partnership for Justice (AIPJ) is collecting data on legal identity from some Religious Courts involving South Sulawesi, Flores, Lombok, West Java and North Sumatera. Legal identity consists of birth certificate, marriage certificate and divorce certificate.

Besides, AIPJ is also collecting data from General Courts, Department of Population and Civil, Office of Education, Office of Health, Office of Social, Regional Office of Ministry of Law and Human Rights, Central Bureau of Statistic, Legal Aid, NGO and universities.

According to Wahyu Widiana, a senior adviser of AIPJ, legal identity is absolutely important. It is required to fulfill some basic needs regarding social economic, fair justice, and legal information.

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Badilag Conducts a Survey to Measure the Bureaucratic Reform

Jakarta | Badilag.net

Like other state agency of echelon I, Badilag makes self assessment to measure bureaucratic reform. This assessment has two main important purposes.

First, it will facilitate state agency in providing data and information regarding on the progress of bureaucratic reform. The data and information will be used to make evaluation.

Second, it will supply data and information for the Ministry of State Apparatus Empowerment and Bureaucratic Reform. The ministry will use them in making national profile for the implementation of bureaucratic reform.

The self assessment involves two components, namely enablers and result. Enabler component is all programs conducted by the state agency relating to its main tasks. Meanwhile, the result component is the outcome of the program.

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The. Hon. Corstens was impressed by the Gallery of Badilag

Jakarta | badilag.net

Corstens, the president of Hoge Raad of the Netherland visited the Directorate General of the Religious Courts (Badilag), Monday (18/03/2013). In the morning, Corstens signed a MoU between the Hoge Raad and the Supreme Court of the Republic of Indonesia in Jakarta.

He visited Badilag’s office with a delegates including Mr. J.A.C.A. Overgaauw (Vice President of the Hoge Raad), Mr. M.A. Loth (Justice of the Hoge Raad), Mr. J. Storm (Registrar of the Hoge Raad), A.R. Rotscheid (Case Adiministration Director of the Hoge Raad) and Dr. Sebastian Pompe (an expert for legal reform).

Justice Prof. Takdir Rachmadi brought the delegates to Badilag’s office. The delegates were welcomed by Purwosusilo (Director General of Badilag), Cicut Sutiarso (Director General of Badilum), Sulistyo (Director of Badimiltun), Syarifuddin (Head of Supervision Board), Siti Nurjanah (Head of Education and Training Center Board) and some officials of echelon II and II.

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