Supreme court law amended

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