<![CDATA[Divorce cases dominate the docket of the Cikarang Religious Court, yet the mediation required before the substance of a case is examined rarely ends in reconciliation. This study asks two questions: what roles judge and non-judge mediators play, and how mediation of divorce cases is carried out in this court. It uses a juridical-empirical approach with a descriptive-analytical qualitative method. Primary data come from observation and interviews with judge mediators in April 2025, while secondary data consist of the regulations on mediation procedure, annual reports, and the mediation case records for 2023 and 2024. Mediation follows the stages set out in Supreme Court Regulation Number 1 of 2016: pre-mediation, the mediation sessions, and the outcome, with caucus and cross-questioning used to explore the dispute. Of the 12 mediators on the court’s roster, nine are judges and three are non-judges. Mediation succeeded in 109 of 406 cases (26.8%) in 2023 and 139 of 614 cases (22.6%) in 2024, below the 40% figure treated as the target. The main obstacles are a firm decision to divorce, uncontrolled anger, an inability to forgive after infidelity, and unwillingness to negotiate.]]>
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