Seeking true justices

Seeking true justices

The House of Representatives will soon screen and interview 63
Supreme Court Justice candidates. It will be the second time that
the House has helped choose new justices during the reform era.
The first was in 2000.

The interview process is meant to select 26 new justices, from
the available pool. A shortage of justices has affected the
performance of the Supreme Court. The chairman of The Association
of Indonesian Judges Toton Soeprapto has once said that there
were 16,000 cases backlogged at the Supreme Court. The
sluggishness of settling the cases has greatly affected those who
are waiting for the settlement of their legal proceedings.

In this context, the presence of new justices will be very
relevant. But the bottom line is not just seeking new justices to
fill the vacant posts, but more than that - seeking qualified
justices, with their own specialties. Or quality over quantity.

The question is: Do the members in the House have the ability,
integrity and wisdom to decide on the best judges?

-- Suara Karya, Jakarta