PERAN ADVOKAT DI PENGADILAN AGAMA: Studi di Pengadilan Agama Padang Kelas I A

Abstract

In 2003, the government issued the law no.18 on the lawyer that creates a new opportunity for the graduates
of the Sharia Faculty to become a lawyer for the court. Before this year, this profesion was a privilage to the
graduates of the Law Faculty. Data shows that there are only two lawyers graduated from the Sharia Faculty’s
who have become this profession. Thus, it is necessary to observe how they run their role in giving legal advices
to the parties, and also to examine the preferences of the clients between the lawyers graduated from the Shariah
faculty and the Law Faculty. This study reveals that the lawyers graduated from the Sharia Faculty tend to
have clients who were exercising the case in the Islamic Court rather than other courts. Further, the clients’s
preference is mostly to the lawyers graduated for the Faculty of Law. It suggests that it requires to stimulate the
students of the Sharia Faculty to be interested to become a lawyer.