My understanding of Indonesian law is that there is no precedence like in other countries. I am sure the decision can be appealed in a higher court, if of course the person who lost has the money to pursue it.
Precedent, in Common Law systems, is the principle that previous cases with similar facts on an identical point of law will bind courts of equal or lower status. In Civil Law systems, courts are not bound by decisions of courts at the same level or higher. This means that there is little need for law reporting in Indonesia and certainly not for published authoritative sets of judgments. Some, limited collections of judgments are published (for example, Yurisprudensi) but they are ad hoc in nature. In fact, statements as to preferred interpretation or policy issued by the Supreme Court in the form of surat edaran (circular letters), rather like practice notes in the Common Law System, tend to be more influential than previous decisions, even of the Supreme Court.
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