According to a recent article in the Jakarta Post (see here), the Judicial Commission’s budget for 2014 has been cut by 27 percent.
The Judicial Commission is an independent body, tasked with calling and disciplining judges of the Supreme Court as well as lower courts - including the Commercial Court, which hears first-instance intellectual property cases (see our post on the Judicial Commission here). The Judicial Commission is now saying it will not have sufficient resources to participate in the selection of judges (which is a task it is required by the Judicial Commission Law to perform - see our post on fit and proper test here). It will apparently continue to receive and act on complaints from the public about misconduct of Justices.
This is most definitely a step in the wrong direction. Lack of confidence in the Indonesian judiciary has long been a significant issue (see our post here, for example) that more, and not less, attention and resources need to be devoted to addressing.