UII lecturer chairs Judicial Commission

JAKARTA: Members of the recently established Judicial Commission has appointed M. Busyro Muqqodas as chairman of the seven-member group with a five-year mandate.

Commission member Irawady Joenoes said that M. Thahir Saimima was elected as deputy.

Busyro is a lecturer from the school of law at the Indonesian Islamic University (UII) in Yogyakarta.

The commission, whose main task is to oversee the performance of judges in the country and help improve the weak court system, is now completing its review of the performance of the West Java High Court judges, who issued a controversial verdict in relation to the Depok mayoral election dispute. -- JP