Over the past years and decades, Indonesia has had to suffer the corruption that lies at the heart of its judicial institutions, to the point where bribery and sleaze just seem to have become the norm. In recent times, a long list of scandals has engulfed the District Court, Appellate Court and even the country’s Supreme Court, one of the main authorities as regards the direction that law enforcement ultimately takes in Indonesia.
 
This already dreadful situation took a turn for the even worse recently when the Corruption Eradication Commission revealed a number of names working at so-called honorable judicial institutions who had been declared suspects in bribery cases, specifically: Andri Tristiato Sutrisna (the former Head of the Sub-Directorate on Cassation for Civil Cases at the Supreme Court), Edy Nasution (a registrar at the Central Jakarta District Court), and Nurhadi Abdurachman (the former Secretary of the Supreme Court).[1] Such cases have thrown the spotlight onto the truly rotten condition of Indonesia’s various judicial institutions, and specifically the poor performance of the Supreme Court, which is obviously supposed to represent the country's highest authority. 
 
Spurred on by this parlous situation, the Supreme Court recently decided to take the ongoing discourse into bureaucratic reform seriously in an attempt to recover public trust in Indonesia’s Supreme Courtjudges and personnel, as well as in the Appellate Court and District Courts (collectively referred to as “Lower Courts”). With this goal in mind, the Chief of the Supreme Court has just issued three new regulations in a bid to improve the performance of the countries court system, both internally and externally. These three regulations breakdown as follows: