THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE E-COURT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN SEMARANG COURTS IN SEMARANG CITY

Abstract

The administration of courts in Indonesia adheres to Article 2 paragraph (4) of Law no. 48 of 2009 concerning Judicial Power where the implementation of the court must be fast, and low cost. In the government’s effort to make this happen, an online court system, known as E-Court, is created in which presents four E-Court features, namely E-Filing, E-Skum, E-Payment and E-Summons. The implementation of the E-court, which is under the auspices of the Supreme Court Regulation No. 3 of 2018, according to the author, is still doubtful because the drastic changes from the previous court service system which were completely offline but now must be done online certainly lead to a separate polemic which is not impossible to actually slow down the course of the court. Based on that the authors intend to conduct a study that examines the effectiveness of E-court. The study was conducted using an empirical juridical approach method, which is descriptive in which the source of research relies on data taken in the field where in this case the authors chose to conduct research in the Semarang City District Court and religious court supported by relevant literature analyzed using triangulation of data to obtain results. The results showed that the implementation of e-Court in Semarang was still not effective as based on the data obtained from 2016-2019 there is no significant increase to the applicant who registered their case. The E-Court still need many improvements including adding the possibility to integrate the e-court system into criminal court. However, before going to achieve that there is but a large task that needs to be completed for the supreme court as an institution which oversees all courts in Indonesia and that is to increase socialization not only for advocates but also court employees and the community as potential users of the application so that the implementation of e-court can run effectively.