each court would have six judges to specially handle corruption cases, namely two for the higher court and the rest for the district court.Bandarlampung, Lampung (ANTARA News) - Indonesia plans to set up corruption courts in 33 provinces in the country by the end of 2011, Supreme Court Chairman Harifin A Tumpa said.
He said here on Wednesday evening each court would have six judges to specially handle corruption cases, namely two for the higher court and the rest for the district court.
He said technically implementation of court sessions and secretarial affairs would be embedded in a district court based in receptive provincial capitals.
"That way I am optimistic by the end of the year the plan would be fully realized in all 33 provinces in Indonesia," he said.
Harifin admitted with the current limited budget the establishment of the courts would be one of the programs to be prioritized that must be immediately realized.
He said right now the budget for building operations and court inventory across the country only reached 40 percent of the total budget. "The rest is for employee spending," he said.
Based on that procurement of land and court houses in a number of autonomous regions has been put in the hands of the provincial governments concerned.
He said he hoped all public officials that carried out the development really understood the existing regulations and rules so that they would not make any mistake when producing policies and be trapped into a corruption case.(*)
Editor: Heru Purwanto
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