Anticorruption judges undergo training

JAKARTA: Nine ad hoc judges for the anticorruption court are currently undergoing training to prepare them for handling high- profile corruption cases submitted by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).

Supreme Court Chief Justice Bagir Manan said on Monday that the two months of training, designed to educate non-career judges, is jointly conducted by the Supreme Court and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

Three judges will be assigned to anticorruption courts at district court, high court and supreme court levels. They will team up with career judges, who were selected earlier.

The anticorruption court has yet to start operating, pending the inauguration of ad hoc anticorruption judges by President Megawati Soekarnoputri. -- Antara