The Politics of Court Reform

Melissa Crouch is Associate Professor at the Law Faculty, the University of New South Wales, Sydney. She holds a B.A./LL.B. and Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne. She teaches and researches on law and religion, law and governance, and comparative constitutional law, with a focus in Southeast Asia. Her research has been funded by numerous awards, including the Endeavour Australia Research Fellowship and an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant. She is the author of Law and Religion in Indonesia (2014) and The Constitution of Myanmar (forthcoming).

1. The judicial reform landscape in Indonesia: innovation, specialisation and the legacy of Dan S. Lev Melissa Crouch; Part I. Continuity and Change in the General Court System: 2. The Supreme Court: Reformasi, independence and the failure to ensure legal certainty Rifqi Assegaf; 3. The District Courts: sentencing decisions as evolving legal culture? Daniel Pascoe; 4. The 'justice system postman': the Indonesian prosecution system at work Fachrizal Afandi; Part II. Specialised Courts Established under the New Order: 5. The Religious Courts: does Lev's analysis still hold? Stijn Cornelius van Huis; 6. The Administrative Courts: the quest for consistency Adriaan Bedner and Herlambang Perdana Wiratraman; Part III. Specialised Courts as Judicial Reform Strategy: 7. The Anti-corruption Courts and the persistence of judicial culture Simon Butt; 8. The Commercial Court: a story of unfinished reforms Gustaaf Reerink, Kevin Omar Sidharta, Aria Suyudi and Sofie Hewitt; 9. The Small Claims Court: an innovation in judicial reform Binziad Kadafi; 10. The Fisheries Court: government-led judicial development? Indriaswati Dyah Saptraningrun; 11. The Constitutional Court: a Levian take on its place in the Reformasi Theunis Roux; Part IV. Courts and Rights: 12. The Juvenile Courts and children's rights: good intentions, flawed execution Putri K. Amanda, Shaila Tieken, Sharyn Graham Davies and Santi Kusumaningrum; 13. The Human Rights Courts: embedding impunity Ken Setiawan; 14. The Industrial Relations Court: challenges for labour rights Surya Tjandra; 15. The media: megaspectacles and transparency in the courts Ross Tapsell and Sita Dewi; 16. Lev on the links between legal evolution, political change and activism Frank Munger; Epilogue Fritz Siregar.