Indonesia

AIJI has been working in cooperation with the Supreme Court of Indonesia since 2003 to assist it to implement its judicial reform program. This has resulted in two workshops held at the East West Center in 2003 and 2005. During these workshops trial judges from the Ad Hoc Human Rights Court, the Supreme Court and the High Courts of Jakarta and Surabaya met with a group of international faculty from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Court. The workshops primarily tackled the challenges faced in administering justice in Indonesia.

Since that time four training workshops have been conducted in Indonesia for judges, prosecutors and investigators of the National Human Rights Commission, and NGOs involved in human rights cases. In July 2006 this included an advanced “train-the-trainer” workshop, held in Indonesia, including judges from the Central Jakarta Judicial District and the Indonesian Supreme Court, prosecutors from the Attorney General’s Human Rights Directorate, and National Human Rights Commission investigators. The first workshop led by AIJI-trained faculty (and David Cohen) was undertaken in Macassar in October 2006.