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IT in the Court and

why it is so muchFunHaemiwan FathonyThe Judicial Reform Team Office at the Supreme Court of Indonesia

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Agenda

Introduction

IT Roles in the Court

Understanding the Court Process

Where Technology can Play?

Why it is so much Fun?

Traps & Challenges

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Introduction

IT in the Court From the court, legal profession and people at large

perspectives

From the geek perspective

Why it is so much Fun Challenging implementation

Limited resources, geographical challenges, low IT

literacy issues Piloting forever syndrome

Fail to address both the strategic and the very basic needs of theCourt

A real life test-bed for some new technologicalconcepts

But beware of geeks trap

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IT Roles in the Court

Major complaints to the court all over the world*: Court processes take too long

Courts are difficult to access

Judges are corrupt

IT should give more focus on how to: Reduce case processing delays

Create better access to the court

Prevent/reduce corruption

Transparent & accountable processes

Improving impartiality and integrity in court andjudiciaries

Internal process The very sameissues for everyother organizations

Client service

Integrity of the

organization

* Taken from Technology for Justice, Dory Reiling (2009)

will have court-wide organizationalimpact

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Understanding the CourtProcess*

Registration

Judgment Process

Delivery & Execution

Court Hearings

District Court

(1st instance court)

High Court

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appeal

Cassation, PK

disputes

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* This only depict the main processes withinthe Indonesian legal systemSo much technological opportunities andchallenges all over the processes!

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Where Technology canPlay

Case processing,access to courtservices, prevent

corruption

Provision of informationfor justice seekers

E-filing Case recordings and

managements Combined with

workflow andcontentmanagementtechnologies

Courtroom technologies: Remote hearing

Virtual courtroom

Court room recordingand transcription

Remote/mobile courts Etc

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Why it is so much Fun

ChallengingRequirementManagement

Limited budget &resources

Geographicalchallenges

Low IT literacy

issues Possibility of BPR

needs Possibility of forcing

others to change Large scale data

Speech to texttechnology

Computer assisted

criminal sentencing Knowledge and

discovery in thelegal database Selecting, pre-

process andtransform the data

Data mining (ruleinduction,uncertain and

statistical, neuralnetworks)

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The state of IndonesianCourts*

Basic case registration, in some courts Full case processing, in some other courts

Transparency issue as the main driver**

Publishing the court decisions Publishing the court status

Court fee information

Complaint management Will move on to accelerate court processes

The need of process reengineering has beenidentified

Still struggling to face the classical challenges ofIT implementations See the traps and challenges

* May reflects for courts under the Supreme Court only** Driven by the new laws on the Basic Judiciaries, Public Information Law, and Public Services Law

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Some Traps

So sophisticated but could not deliverdirect benefit to the users, e.g. solvingregular reporting duties and eliminating

clerical tasks Main complaint on most IT systems

Pushing too far, creating complex changemanagement The user environment is not ready

Crossing the regulation border

Challenging some philosophical principles

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Challenges

Unfriendly regulations Resistances

Changing the way of work That may need change of regulations and

conflicting interests

Corruption fight backsThe challenges scale as the

implementation scales Should be careful on nationwide

implementation

Pilot may be useful, but must be carefully

executed and probably need an end to end