Bagir Manan:Judging the Judge

May 15, 2001

In chaos, there's often luck. Perhaps that's what happened to 59-year old Bagir Manan, who was appointed by President Abdurrahman Wahid as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (MA) earlier this month. Bagir, an administrative law specialist at the Padjadjaran University in Bandung, assumes highest judicial office in the land when relations between the president and the House of Representatives (DPR) are even more uncertain. The name of the dean of th

...

More Articles