Book contents
- The Politics of Court Reform
- The Politics of Court Reform
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The Judicial Reform Landscape in Indonesia
- Part I Continuity and Change in the General Court System
- Part II Specialised Courts Established under the New Order
- Part III Specialised Courts as Judicial Reform Strategy
- Part IV Courts and Rights
- 12 The Juvenile Courts and Children’s Rights
- 13 The Human Rights Courts
- 14 The Industrial Relations Court
- 15 The Media
- 16 Lev on the Links between Legal Evolution, Political Change and Activism
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
14 - The Industrial Relations Court
Challenges for Labour Rights
from Part IV - Courts and Rights
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 August 2019
- The Politics of Court Reform
- The Politics of Court Reform
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The Judicial Reform Landscape in Indonesia
- Part I Continuity and Change in the General Court System
- Part II Specialised Courts Established under the New Order
- Part III Specialised Courts as Judicial Reform Strategy
- Part IV Courts and Rights
- 12 The Juvenile Courts and Children’s Rights
- 13 The Human Rights Courts
- 14 The Industrial Relations Court
- 15 The Media
- 16 Lev on the Links between Legal Evolution, Political Change and Activism
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In 2004, Indonesia’s Industrial Relations Court was established as a special court within the scope of the general courts. It has seen major challenges to its operations from the beginning. These challenges include ongoing internal problems related to the high levels of corruption within the Indonesian judicial system; the problems related to technical competence and legal integrity of career judges, ad hoc judges and registrars; and external problems including the workers’ lack of competence in civil litigation procedures and thus access to the court’s litigation processes. Together these problems have led to declining public confidence in the performance of the Court; a situation which has a greater adverse effect on employees and trade unions than on employers. The Court needs to be reformed, for example, by turning it into an autonomous special court, a recommendation that has been put forward by several ad hoc judges from union circles. Such progressive reforms, however, would require strong political commitment both from the judiciary and government; both of which appear currently to be mired in the past.
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- The Politics of Court ReformJudicial Change and Legal Culture in Indonesia, pp. 311 - 333Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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