Strategic Policy for The Development of Electronic
Judiciary in Indonesia During the Pandemic Period
Zulfia Hanum Alfi Syahr
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, Muhamad Zaky Albana
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, Tumbur Palti D. Hutapea
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, Muh.
Ridha Hakim
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Judiciary and Law Research and Development Center of Supreme Court of Republic of Indonesia,
Jalan Jend. Ahmad Yani Kav. 58 bypass Cempaka Putih Jakarta Pusat
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Abstract. The Electronic judiciary is a policy issued by e-court launching. This was to
address global challenges as well as to realize the acceleration of case management.
During the pandemic, litigation becomes hampered because it has to reduce physical
contact in implementing health protocols. Therefore, the problems of case management
that were previously done offline should begin to be diverted by optimizing the function
of the e-court. Thus, the implementation of technology information is very important to
ensure the court running process. The development of electronic judiciary is carried out
by comparing with several countries to become evaluation and reference material. The
goal is to make the electronic judiciary more accessible and easier to use by the public.
The method used is a qualitative approach with policy conceptual comparison. The result
is that the e-court must be able to facilitate up to the administrative process, the trial,
until the verdict.
Keywords: case management; e-court; the pandemic; the electronic judiciary
1 Introduction
The concept of the electronic judiciary in Indonesia was initiated in 2014 with the
implementation of the Case Tracking Information System (CTS) in all courts. The CTS
application is a first step for the Supreme Court in starting the transition process from
conventional to electronic in terms of filing case documents. The background of the
application of technology in the judiciary is several problems in case administration in the
court, including there are: 1) slow handling of cases; 2) scattered administrative responsibility
for handling cases and; 3) recording the case handling process is not based on IT[1]. Seeing
this problem, the court must start implementing IT to simplify and speed up the case
management process. The application of IT is supported by the existence of a court
digitization policy that continues to develop until the actual realization of electronic justice in
Indonesia.
The development of information and technology has begun to be applied to the judicial
process to realize a faster, simpler and, lower-cost case management that is integrated into the
electronic judiciary system [2]. The real form of the electronic judiciary has started in 2018
with the launch of an e-court application by the Supreme Court. The application of the e-court
is based on the Regulation of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Indonesia Number 3 of
ICLHR 2021, April 14-15, Jakarta, Indonesia
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DOI 10.4108/eai.14-4-2021.2312898