Thursday, July 24, 2008

INDONESIA-AUSTRALIA KERJA SAMA TINGKATKAN TRANSPARANSI HUKUM

Mahkamah Agung RI sepakat menjalin kerja sama dengan Pengadilan Federal dan Pengadilan Keluarga Australia dalam meningkatkan akuntabilitas dan transparansi hukum serta memperbaiki mutu dan akses pelayanan hukum.

Jalinan lembaga tinggi hukum kedua negara itu tertuang dalam nota kesepahaman baru yang ditandatangani Ketua MA, Prof. Dr. Bagir Manan, SH, bersama Pimpinan Pengadilan Federal Australia, Michael Black, dan Pimpinan Pengadilan Keluarga Australia, Diana Bryant, di Melbourne 21 Juli lalu.

Konsul Jenderal RI di Melbourne, Budiarman Bahar, mengatakan kepada ANTARA yang menghubunginya dari Brisbane, Kamis, Ketua MA Bagir Manan juga menjalin kerja sama dengan Universitas New South Wales, Universitas Teknologi Sydney dan pengelola situs Lembaga Informasi Hukum Asia (AsianLII) dalam publikasi produk hukum.

"Semua nota kesepahamanan ditandatangani di Melbourne," katanya.

Dengan adanya kesepakatan ini, berbagai keputusan MA maupun pangadilan yang berada di bawah kewenangannya dapat dipublikasi di situs AsianLII.

Kini setidaknya sudah ada 36 keputusan MA RI yang dapat diakses publik secara global dalam situs AsianLII. Dokumen terbaru yang dimuat adalah Putusan Mahkamah Agung Nomor 1368K/PDT/2007 Tahun 2007 [2008] IDMA 3 (29 Februari 2008).

Ketua MA Bagir Manan berkunjung ke Melbourne, Australia, dari 21 hingga 23 Juli.

*) My news for ANTARA on July 24, 2008

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Hi, I am a journalist of ANTARA, Indonesia's national news agency whose headquarters is in Jakarta. My fate has brought me back to Australia since March 2007 because my office assigns me to be the ANTARA correspondent there. My first visit to the neighboring country was in 2004 when I did my masters at the School of Journalism and Communication, the University of Queensland (UQ), Brisbane, under the Australian Development Scholarship (ADS) scheme. However, the phase of my life was started from a small town in North Sumatra Province, called Pangkalan Brandan. In that coastal town, I was born and grown up. Having completed my senior high school there in 1987, I moved to Medan to pursue my study at the University of North Sumatra (USU) and obtained my Sarjana (BA) degree in English literature in 1992. My Master of Journalism (MJ) was completed at UQ in July 2005. The final research project report for my MJ degree was entitled "Framing the Australian Embassy Bombing (Jakarta) in Indonesian and Australian Newspapers". Further details about me can be read in a writing posted in my blog entitled "My Life Journey".

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