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IKAHI was established in 1953 in order to defend the interests of Indonesian judges on topics such as salary and judicial independence from the executive branch. [3] The association's founding is credited to Suryadi, the third Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Indonesia, as he was the first person to begin organizing district judges in 1952. [4]
Indonesian law is a continuation and improvement of the Dutch colonial laws, Islamic family laws, and aspects of Adat laws (unwritten, traditional rules still observed in the Indonesian society). The highest law of the land is the 1945 Constitution , amended four times from 1999 to 2002 during the early Reformasi period.
In 2015, the Commission suffered a major blow to its powers when the Constitutional Court ruled in favor of a judicial review filed by the Indonesian Judges Association. The review alleged that selection of candidates for the bench was out of the Commission's purview, which only includes monitoring the performance of already serving judges. [11]
JAKARTA (Reuters) -A judicial panel in Indonesia on Tuesday found the Constitutional Court's chief justice guilty of a conflict of interest over his part in a ruling that allowed President Joko ...
Activists and former justices in Indonesia on Wednesday urged a top judge to quit the Constitutional Court, calling him a threat to its credibility over ethics violations in a ruling that enabled ...
The Indonesian Constitutional Court was established as a consequence of the third amendment to the Constitution of Indonesia, ratified by the People's Consultative Assembly on 9 November 2001. Between the adoption of the third Constitutional amendment and the establishment of the Constitutional Court, the duties of the Constitutional Court were ...
As a result, some judges are tempted to accept bribes in the course of their duties. [22] The low salaries paid to judges have been a source of much attention in Indonesia recently with judges urging the government and parliament to tackle the issue, [23] and even threatening to go on strike over the matter. [24]
21st-century Indonesian judges (32 P) C. Justices of the Constitutional Court of Indonesia (20 P) S. Chief justices of the Supreme Court of Indonesia (17 P)