Through this book, I would like to present to the public on how to litigate a civil case before another jurisdiction's forum. I believe that it is a basic principle that every attorney has to upheld, which is the principle to stay relevant at all times on the subject matter. For example: if the subject matter is corruption, we must relate with the relevant knowledge of laws on corruption.
As my office counsels numerous corruption cases, I do have a widespread knowledge on the matter of corruption. Factors of my increasing knowledge on corruption is added by the fact that I participated for nearly 1 year in Vienna, Austria, as an Indonesian delegate to discuss and draft the Convention on Corruption as a Transnational Organized Crime.
The Garnet proceeding before the Courts of Guernsey is an interesting case. The Appellate Court of Guernsey has decided that the Government of Indonesia has failed to convince the Queen Council upon the arguments to file injunction.
Such failure may very well be caused by the inconsistency of the Government of Indonesia that can be seen through the relevant affidavits.
In one part, it claims that Mr. Hutomo Mandala Putra is a wealthy businessman, having 800 million US$ in Indonesia within his control. However, on the other hand, the Government of Indonesia does not show any successful attempt to simply take “remedies” from such amount and in contrary shows desperation in extending such attempt extraterritorially in Guernsey.
