UII lecturer chairs Judicial Commission

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