Mudjono

Mujono (30 July 1927 – 14 April 1984) was the sixth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Indonesia as well as the 16th Minister of Law and Human Rights. His appointment to both posts began a line of former military officials predominating in Indonesia's legal system.

Born in East Java, Mujono was educated at the Military Law Academy from 1957 until 1962, and was part of the central leadership of the Golkar party from 1967 to 1971.

Mujono was appointed to the Ministry of Law and Human Rights in 1978 after a prior period of civilian officeholders. Mujono transferred a number of judges from central courts to outlying districts without consulting Aji, then Chief Justice; when Mujono left his position as Minister of Law to replace Aji as the Chief Justice, he began to call for a return of judicial responsibilities to the Supreme Court. the first former army general to be appointed as Chief Justice, he reportedly said at the beginning of his tenure that he'd overhaul the court's processes even if he needed to bring in tanks to do the job. In order to deal with the court's sizeable backlog of cases, he increased the number of the staff to the point where many of the chambers could operate autonomously. In the first fifteen months of his tenure, he increased the number of justices on the Supreme court from seventeen to twenty four; Additionally, he added "junior chairmen" to the court: four for the jurisdictions of general, religious, military and administrative (which included housing and labor) law, and three for appeals in civil, criminal and customary law. Each chamber was required to resolve a minimum of fifty cases per month; the emphasis on simply reducing the backlog rather than assigning teams to cases that fit their expertise is a practice of the court which continues until today. Starting from 1981, each justice also had to oversee multiple appeals courts, some of which required the justices to travel to other regions of the country in order to keep lines of communication between the Supreme Court and lower courts open.

Mujono's restructuring was not without its problems, though his narrow focus on reducing the backlog succeeded. By 1984, he reported to then President Suharto that the backlog had been nearly eliminated; Mujono died a few weeks later. Ali Said, another former military general, replaced Mujono as Chief Justice just as he'd replaced him as Minister of Law three years prior.