Previously, a court sitting was forbidden if it took place outside the courtroom. The grounds for this were in the KUHAP; it stipulated a sitting must be in court. But, judges such as Bismar Siregar, for instance, who have now been pensioned off as a Supreme Court Justice, were brave enough to break the restrictive mould of regulations. When he became head of the Pontianak District Court, West Kalimantan, in the 1960s, he often heard cases o