Professional Education and Training in Indonesia

The professional training of the judges may influence their interpretation of justice. In terms of the training of judges, the influence of training may shape the judicial interpretation of justice. Despite the absence in the literature on the formation of the professional identity of the judiciary in Indonesia, Indonesian judges develop their professional identity through a training process which enables them to consider ‘justice' in their sentencing. The authors found that trainee judges learn the three most important forms of justice: legal justice, moral justice, and social justice. Concerning sentencing, the primary aim of training is to raise awareness of some of the tensions between those three forms of justice when sentencing. The judge will also learn from training that judges would be required to reconcile the often-competing forms of justice. In this chapter, the authors furtherconsider the way the judges reconcile the often-competing forms of justice.