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Team turns to academia to find quality justice candidates
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Former Constitutional Court justice and bribery suspect Patrialis Akbar enters a car after a questioning session at the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on Friday Jan. 27 early morning. Patrialis, Kamaludin, as well as businesspeople Basuki Hariman and Ng Fenny have been detained for their roles in an alleged bribery. (The Jakarta Post/Dhoni Setiawan)
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state-sanctioned team will conduct talent-scouting at universities and in civil society groups to find quality candidates to replace former Constitutional Court justice Patrialis Akbar.
Realizing that low enthusiasm was always be the case in the past vetting processes, team member Sukma Violetta, who is also a deputy head of the Judicial Commission (KY), said she believed that talent-scouting would help them identify potential names.
"We will not directly ask potential candidates to avoid a kind of conflict of interest. We will only talk to those who can give us names," Sukma added.
In the 2014 selection, there were only 16 applicants, of which only three decided to enter the race after they were pushed by civil society groups or communities. Low enthusiasm also marred another selection process in the same year, with only 12 people applying for the job.
The court is considered to be one of the most powerful institutions in the country, mainly due to its authority to issue rulings on election disputes.
However, a lack of enthusiasm has encumbered the recruitment of new justices, partly due to the tough academic and age requirements -- a doctorate degree in any discipline, a mandatory undergraduate legal degree and an age between 47 and 65 years. (ary)
