Otto Hasibuan-led Peradi Wins Judicial Review Over Management Decrees
As reported on Tuesday (2/6/2026), this legal dispute has been ongoing since 2022, when the Peradi faction led by Otto Hasibuan filed a lawsuit with the Jakarta Administrative Court (PTUN). The Jakarta Administrative Court partially granted Otto’s lawsuit in 2023, and the decision was upheld during the appeal stage. However, the case subsequently reached the Supreme Court’s cassation level, where Otto’s faction lost in 2024.
In 2025, the Otto-led Peradi faction filed a judicial review (PK) with the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has now granted the entire petition, as evidenced by decision number 57 PK/TUN/2020. The verdict stated, “Grants the Plaintiff’s lawsuit in its entirety.”
The judicial review was presided over by a panel of judges led by Supreme Court Justice Suharto, with members Hari Sugiharto and Yodi Martono Wahyunadi. The full verdict of the judicial review is as follows:
Deciding:
To grant the judicial review petition from the Petitioner, PERHIMPUNAN ADVOKAT INDONESIA (PERADI);
To annul Supreme Court Decision Number 189 K/TUN/2024, dated 29 October 2024;
Re-deciding:
To grant the Plaintiff’s lawsuit in its entirety;
To declare the Defendant’s Decrees null and void or invalid:
Decree of the Minister of Law and Human Rights of the Republic of Indonesia Number AHU-0000859.AH.01.08.Year 2022, dated 26 April 2022, regarding the Approval of Changes to the Indonesian Advocates Association;
Decree of the Minister of Law and Human Rights of the Republic of Indonesia Number AHU-0000883.AH.01.08.Year 2022, dated 28 April 2022, regarding the Approval of Changes to the Indonesian Advocates Association;
To compel the Defendant to revoke the following Decrees:
Decree of the Minister of Law and Human Rights of the Republic of Indonesia Number AHU-0000859.AH.01.08.Year 2022, dated 26 April 2022;
Decree of the Minister of Law and Human Rights of the Republic of Indonesia Number AHU-0000883.AH.01.08.Year 2022;
To order the Defendant to issue a Decree of Approval for Changes to the Indonesian Advocates Association submitted by the management of Dr. H. Fauzie Yusuf Hasibuan, S.H., M.H. and Thomas E. Tampubolon, S.H., M.H., as Chairperson and Secretary General of the National Leadership Council (DPN) of PERADI for the 2015-2020 period, based on the decisions of the PERADI National Congress II in Pekanbaru on 12-13 June 2015, as requested via DPN PERADI letters dated 28 April 2022 and 11 May 2022, and submitted by Notary Marlon Silitonga, S.H.;
To order the Defendant to issue a Decree of Approval for Changes to the Indonesian Advocates Association submitted by the management of Prof. Dr. Otto Hasibuan, S.H., M.M., and Dr. H. Hermansyah Dulaimi, S.H., M.H., as Chairperson and Secretary General of the DPN PERADI for the 2020-2025 period, based on the decisions of the PERADI National Congress III in Bogor on 7 October 2020, as requested via DPN PERADI letters dated 28 April 2022 and 11 May 2022, and submitted via the Legal Entity Administration System (SABH) of the Ministry of Law and Human Rights on 28 April 2022;
To order the First and Second Respondents of the Judicial Review to pay the court costs at all levels of court, which in this judicial review is set at Rp 2,500,000.00 (two million five hundred thousand Rupiah).