MA Officially Introduces Chamber Plenary Meeting Results for 2023: Six Legal Formulations Now in Force

Since 2012, each chamber of the Indonesia’s Supreme Court (Mahkamah Agung - “MA”) has routinely organized chamber plenary meetings (“Plenary Meetings”) in order to discuss various technical and non-technical judicial issues that have arisen during court proceedings.[1] As such, it should be noted that the aforementioned MA chambers break down as follows:[2]

Given the above circumstances, the MA has now decided to enforce a number of legal formulations (rumusan hukum) that emerged from each of the above-described court chamber Plenary Meetings (“Formulation”) that were held between 2012 and 2023 through the issuance of Circular No. 3 of 2023 on the Enforcement of 2023 Supreme Court Chamber Plenary Meeting Result Formulations as Guidelines for the Implementation of the Duties of the Court (“Circular 3/2023”), which has been in force since 29 December 2023.[3]