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JUDICIAL COURT PROPOSES 65 YEARS AS SUPREME JUDGES' RETIREMENT AGE
Jakarta, Nov. 6 (ANTARA) - The Judicial Commission (KY) has proposed to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to set the retirement age of Supreme Court judges at 65 years.
Judicial Commission (KY) Chairman Busyro Mugoddas and several KY members at a meeting with the head of state at the presidential office here on Thursday presented empirical data supporting their proposal.
The empirical data were among other things collected from health checkups conducted during the selection of candidates for supreme justice positions by the Judicial Court.
Mustafa Abdullah, the selection team chairman concurrently a KY member, said of 30 candidates proposed by the Supreme Court, nine failed to pass the health examination.
The oldest candidate was 62 years old, he said.
The KY chairman and members expressed their disagreement with a proposal by other quarters to set the mandatory retirement age of supreme justices at 70 years.
Chatamarrasjid, a KY member, said the KY's proposal was also based on a study by the Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) which had yielded the conclusion that the average Indonesian person's productive age limit was 64.2 years.
He said Indonesia could not apply the US system in which supreme justices serve for life. Furthermore, he said, every state in the US had its own supreme court so there was almost no problem of case backlogs in the US, he said.
Meanwhile, Denny Indrayana, a legal expert on the president's assistance staff, said President Yudhoyono was quite flexible regarding the supreme justices' retirement age, and was still considering whether it should be 65 or 70 years.
Judicial Commission (KY) Chairman Busyro Mugoddas and several KY members at a meeting with the head of state at the presidential office here on Thursday presented empirical data supporting their proposal.
The empirical data were among other things collected from health checkups conducted during the selection of candidates for supreme justice positions by the Judicial Court.
Mustafa Abdullah, the selection team chairman concurrently a KY member, said of 30 candidates proposed by the Supreme Court, nine failed to pass the health examination.
The oldest candidate was 62 years old, he said.
The KY chairman and members expressed their disagreement with a proposal by other quarters to set the mandatory retirement age of supreme justices at 70 years.
Chatamarrasjid, a KY member, said the KY's proposal was also based on a study by the Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) which had yielded the conclusion that the average Indonesian person's productive age limit was 64.2 years.
He said Indonesia could not apply the US system in which supreme justices serve for life. Furthermore, he said, every state in the US had its own supreme court so there was almost no problem of case backlogs in the US, he said.
Meanwhile, Denny Indrayana, a legal expert on the president's assistance staff, said President Yudhoyono was quite flexible regarding the supreme justices' retirement age, and was still considering whether it should be 65 or 70 years.
