Sunday, April 19, 2026

Ad hoc military judges?

It sounds like the not-so-good -old-days of military justice, but it's a proposal being floagted now in Indonesia. Consider this Kompas.id report:

The proposal to involve ad hoc judges in handling the acid attack case against KontraS activist Andri Yunus, as conveyed by Vice President Gibran Rakabuming, is considered difficult to realize.

The placement of ad hoc judges in the military justice system must be accompanied by fundamental legal steps, such as issuing a Government Regulation in Lieu of Law (Perppu) or revising Law Number 31 of 1997 concerning Military Justice. Normatively, current military justice procedural law does not recognize ad hoc judges.

The proposal has met opposition, with some saying it's more important to enact a revised Military Justice Law. 

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