Suryadi
| Suryadi | |
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| 3rd Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Indonesia | |
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In office 21 June 1966 – August 1968 |
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| President | Sukarno, Suharto |
| Preceded by | Wirjono Prodjodikoro |
| Succeeded by | Subekti |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Dutch East Indies |
| Citizenship | Indonesian |
| Nationality | Indonesian |
| Religion | Islam |
Suryadi (sometimes spelled Soerjadi) was a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Indonesia, as well as the first chairman of the Indonesian Judges Association.
By 1952, judges on the island of Java had begun to organize; Suryadi had initially been the chairman of the trial court in Semarang at that time. Suryadi was the first chairman of IKAHI, the Judges' Association, at its inception in May 1953. He became the first chairman because, during his time as the chairman of the Surabaya district court, he was the first person to organize district judges in 1952. In 1955, he toured the United States and was deeply impressed by the far reach of the Federal judiciary of the United States; his references to the American system were frequent after his return. Additionally, his resentment toward the influence prosecutors increased, and their tendency to cite practices of the judiciary of the Netherlands instead caused clashes of viewpoints.
Suryadi was appointed by the first President of Indonesia, Sukarno, as the third Chief Justice on June 21, 1966. He continued as the Chief Justice throughout the turbulent period known as the Transition to the New Order, and eventually found himself in outright confrontation with the Judges' Association. Like his predecessor Wirjono Prodjodikoro, Suryadi resigned as Chief Justice after a power struggle with the Association's leadership, in part exacerbated due to personal and private disputes with Association members Asikin Kusumah Atmaja and Sri Widoyati Sukito.
The Judges' Association which Suryadi himself helped found was opposed to him, in part, because of perceptions that he was being used by Sukarno; heated personal confrontations had previously taken place when Suryadi had served at the same Jakarta district courts as Atmaja and Sukito due to their impression that he was allowing his politics to interfere with his work. He'd been chosen by Sukarno over his eventual successor, Subekti, against the recommendations of the Parliament of Indonesia during the era of guided democracy. Part of Sukarno's reasoning was that Subekti played "poker", leading to the impression among the judiciary that Suryadi had been chosen due to his relationship with Sukarno in the Indonesian National Party.
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