DG of Badilag: IT Sustainability in Religious Court Should be Based on System, Not Individuals

Jakarta, pta-yogyakarta.go.id (Thursday, 18/01/10) - After previously stuck in Jakarta traffic jam, the delegation of Yogyakarta Religious High Court finally arrived at the office of the Directorate General of Religious Courts Body (Badilag) of Indonesian Supreme Court, at 10:00 am. For most members of Yogyakarta Religious High Court, who had never set foot in the Badilag’s office, certainly did not expect that the directorate that supervises the entire Indonesian Religious Courts has an office not much larger than their own offices.

The arrival of delegates from Yogyakarta PTA that consisted of the Chairman, High Judges, registrar/secretary of PTA Yogyakarta, Chairmen, Vice Chairmen and Registrars/Secretaries of PAs entire DIY, as well as the team of pta-yogyakarta.go.id was welcomed by the Director General, Secretary of Badilag, Farid Ismail, Director of Technical manpower, and Director of Developments and Administrations who were also receiving visit of KPTA Medan and delegation. Like the PTA Yogyakarta’s delegation, PTA Medan's took chance for silaturrahim and doing a comparative study on the Directorate's office before attending the coordination meeting of Chairmen and Registrars/Secretaries of Mahkamah Syariah of Aceh and Religious Courts entire Indonesia.

At the beginning of meeting, Chairman of Religious High Court of Yogyakarta, Drs. H. M. Hasan H. Muhammad, SH., MH explained the points of Yogyakarta RHC delegation's arrival, in addition to keep the silaturahmi and to get straight direction from the Director General, was also to convey apology of former Vice Chairman of the PTA Yogyakarta, Drs. H. Fadlil Sumadi, SH., MH., for he could not come at the moment due to other busyness that he could not leave. Currently Fadlil is one of the nine Costitutional Judges on the Constitutional Court. He had no longer served as Vice Chairman of the PTA Yogyakarta. Planned on that day, Fadlil accompanied by Chairman of Religious High Court of Yogyakarta would beg leave of the Director General of Badilag.

Also presented by Hasan Muhammad about the developments that occurred in Yogyakarta Religious High Court with achievements which had been reached.

In his briefing, Director General of Badilag, Wahyu Widiana conveyed an appreciation of developments in the RHC Of Yogyakarta. "PTA Yogyakarta deserves to be one of the best PTAs. Many positive activities can be adopted from PTA Yogyakarta. Before Badilag has website in English, Religious Court of  Wonosari already had, and now the PTA Yogyakarta also has. likewise with the English Meeting that PTA Yogyakarta has now," Said Wahyu Widiana. The vigorous Director General also said that there were many qualified cadres who come from PTA Yogyakarta citing as an example that the translator and administrator of the Arabic website of Badilag is also a cadre from Yogyakarta’s Religious Court. He expected for the guidance and efforts to improve the quality of members of PTA Yogyakarta to be continuously increased.

Regarding with the development of information technology, again wahyu widiana re-emphasized the importance of information technology (IT) in supporting of the main daily job.

Regarding with the development of information technology, again wahyu widiana re-emphasized the importance of information technology (IT) in supporting of the main daily job.

IT Sustainability, in this case the utilization of the website, in carrying out main tasks realy depends on the leader’s care and attention.

"Without the leadership's attention, despite having good human resources, IT will not run. Leader does not have to be a master of IT, but still has to motivate with go straight to see its implementation. I also used to go straight to the 'kitchen' of Badilag, to see by myself how the admins work," Said Wahyu Widiana.

Wahyu Widiana also expect sustainability of IT in the religious court environments not to depend on the individuals, but rather to the system. Therefore, when an employee who controls of IT moves to another place, it will not make the implementation of IT in the place where he left inactive, or even die. For that Wahyu Widiana expected for succession to ensure the sustainability of IT with keeping in touch with the 'alumni'. Wahyu also urged to maximize empowering of honorarium staffs in supporting the implementation of court modernization program. He expected the honorariums recruitment to have a standard of skills in the field of IT.

The time showed at 12.00 am, before Zuhur. After getting a lot of guidance in terms of public service, human resources managements and court managements, Chairman Of RHC Yogyakarta representing the delegation excused to continue visiting to the Constitutional Court. The meeting with the Director General Badilag Yogyakarta ended with exchanging souvenirs between the Director General of Badilag and Chairman of RHC  Yogyakarta, followed by photo session. Previously, Chairman of Religious Court of Bantul, Drs. H. Jasiruddin invited the Director General of Badilag to visit The Religious Court of Bantul to see the implementation of one-stop service of court services which is already implemented in the Religious Court of Bantul.