A Study on IT Processes in Indonesian Civil Courts

The author, through the Japan-Indonesia Lawyers Association (JILA), to which the author also belongs, has regularly visited the Supreme Court of the Republic Indonesia (Japan has long been providing support for the development of the legal system to such the supreme court), and has taken the opportunity to study civil court proceedings in Indonesia, which is rapidly adopting IT for court proceedings. The purpose of this article is to clarify the outline and issues of Indonesian civil court proceedings by examining them in light of IT for court proceedings, while civil court in Japan is also adapting IT taking step by step approach, and to make use of this information in future gradual support activities. Basically, based on the results of research based on literature sources (including some local research results), this article will focus on (i) the sources of the law, (ii) the Indonesian judicial system and civil procedure, and examines (iii) the legislative challenges to which the pre-independence Indonesian laws (HIR and RBg) are currently applied, (iv) the challenges that the Indonesian Supreme Court Rule (Supreme Court Regulation No. 1 of 2019) has brought about the IT for civil court procedures while facing the said challenges. This article also examined the differences in methods between the implementation of IT in civil court procedures in Indonesia by the Supreme Court Regulation No. 1 of 2019 and the implementation of IT in civil court procedures in Japan by the 2022 revision of the Code of Civil Procedure.