Justice in 1996, Sarwata stated that the first thing he intended to do was to conduct internal (institutional) consolidation.When a journalist asked if he had any special message from President Soeharto, he replied, "in this regard, I just want to seek his permission to embark on a consolidation process". 1He kept his promise.Up until the end of his leadership in 2000, the Supreme Court -and the Indonesian courts in general -were never more solid in maintaining the status quo.The appointment of Ketut Suraputra as acting Chief Justice in 2000, and who was followed by Taufik, brought about almost no discernible changes.Internal reform in the judicial system only really commenced in 2001 with the appointment of Bagir Manan as Chief Justice.With wide-ranging support, particularly from newly appointed non-career justices 2 (selected from among the ranks of lawyers and academics), reformist Supreme Court justices and officials, civil society groups and donor agencies, slowly but surely the process of reforming the Supreme Court and the judicial system in general was set in motion.External to the courts, many changes took place in Indonesia between 1998 and 2006.Among these were raft of constitutional amendments and changes to the legislation in the judicial sphere, and the handing over of responsibility for court administration from the executive to the judiciary.A lack of trust in the existing judicial bodies led to the establishment of a number of new institutions in the judicial field, including the Judicial Commission, the Anticorruption Court, the Commercial Court, the Human Rights Court, the Fisheries Court, to name but a few.All of these special bodies are characterized by the appointment of ad hoc judges selected from outside the judiciary to sit side by side with career judges.The era of reform was also marked by a
S.Assegaf Rifqi (Mon,) studied this question.