Management of courts to change: Yusril

Management of courts to change: Yusril

Minister of Justice and Human Rights Yusril Ihza Mahendra said
on Thursday that management of the country's judicial courts
would be under the authority of the Supreme Court in 2003 to
avoid duality.

"If the judicial court is placed under the Supreme Court,
judiciary issues will no longer be handled by the Ministry of
Justice," Yusril said in Bandarlampung, Lampung, on Thursday
evening.

At present, the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights handles
administrative and financial matters in the courts, while the
Supreme Court takes care of other institutional matters.

Yusril said that the government could not interfere in the
judicial court -- comprising the general court, state court and
ad hoc human rights court -- as it was an independent body.

"To guarantee no government interference, we need regulations
that eliminate the possibility of nepotism," he said. --Antara