Doctoral Promotion of Drs. H. A. Moekti Arto, SH., M. Hum.

pta-yogyakarta.go.id (Saturday, 17/12/2011) - Having answered various questions and performed dialogue for more than an hour in an open session of doctoral promotion of the Islamic University of Indonesia (UII) in Yogyakarta, finally Drs. H. A. Moekti Arto, SH. M. Hum was declared to be passed with praise and deserved to hold a doctorate.

In the open session held by the Doctoral Program (S3) of Law Studies of Postgraduate Program at Faculty of Law of UII, on Saturday (17/12/11), Mukti Arto successfully defended his dissertation entitled "Religious Courts in the Constitution system of Indonesia on the Development post-Act Nr. 7 of 1989 ".

His dissertation was defended in front of the board of examiners, consisting of Prof. Dr. Edy Suandi Hamid, M. Ec as the Chairman of Session (Rector), Prof. Dr. Achmad Sodiki, SH as promoter, Dr. Abdurrahman, SH., MH as co-promoter, Prof. Dr. Moh. Mahfud MD, SH., SU as member, Prof. Dr. Syamsul Anwar, MA as member, Prof. Dr. Abdul Manan, SH. S.IP., M. Hum as member, and Prof. Dr. Abdul ghofur Anshori, SH., MH as member.

Promovendus concluded, the study he conducted proved that the position, the institutionalization, and competence of the Religious Courts post. Act number 7 of 1989 continued to experience a very significant development so that by the end of 2009 they nearly met the expectations in accordance with the development of legal needs on the society and constitutional life according to the Constitution 1945, although in some respects there are a few things need to continue to be refined.

In the dissertation, Promovendus also described the competences of religious courts which are ups and downs in history, from the beginning up till now. The decline of religious courts occurred in the Dutch colonial era in which judicial competences of religious courts were stripped down, that culminated in 1937 when the Government of the Netherlands East Indies began to move from theory receptio in complexu to receptie. The competences of religious courts recovered back in the early independence of the Republic of Indonesia and continued until the New Order era.

There are 12 points of new findings in the research conducted by promovendus. Among them are the discovery of new phenomena in the form of public's increasing awareness to the Islamic sharia which is going on behind the development of the religious courts. This, among other, is marked by numerous transformations of Islamic sharia law into legislation. In addition, he also made recommendations or suggestions as much as 11 points in the framework of the forward coaching for religious courts in order to achieve the ideals to make them as the true state courts as well as the fully sharia and reliably ones.

Moekti Arto was born on October 11, 1951 in Sukoharjo, now he has been serving as a High Judge of the High Religious Court of Jakarta (PTA Jakarta) since 2006. The husband of Hj. Endang Maryani in addition has career at  the religious courts, also has a long teaching experience since been a teacher to a lecturer which he started since 1967. He also works in writing books or articles.