Supreme court law amended

JAKARTA: Supreme Court judges will be restricted to career judges with at least 17 years of experience and a three-year term as high court judge, a draft law says.

The draft, now being deliberated in the House of Representatives, also allows non-judges to sit on the court, provided they have been lawyers for 25 consecutive years.

Career judges who apply for the position on the Supreme Court can come from district, religious or state administration courts.

House of Representatives legislator Sjaiful Rachman said the draft law, if passed, would replace the current law on Supreme Court.

He said previously the lawmakers had demanded that a career judge may be promoted as a Supreme Court judge if he or she had served as a head of a district or religious or state administration court for five years and another 10 years as a judge. -- JP