Rethinking Judicial Reform in Indonesia: A Digital Civil Procedure Perspective

Abstract

The research examines the changing landscape of Indonesia's judicial reform through the lens of “digital civil procedure”, a framework that captures how technology and information change the administration of civil justice. The study emphasizes the importance of the traffic rule, which regulates the shift of dispute resolution from a physical courtroom to digital platforms such as e‑Court, e‑Civil, and e‑Mediation. It also highlights the role of the information rule, a set of regulatory rules governing how data is produced, managed, and distributed within a digitized dispute‑resolution environment.
Together, these regulatory frameworks represent a significant step in the judiciary’s broader political reform agenda. The study deploys a doctrinal legal method with a chronological analysis of the institution to map key regulatory developments, including the implementation of the Case Tracking Information System (SIPP), simplified litigation and electronic mediation, and assesses their impact on institutional functions, judicial powers and access to justice. The results show that digital civil procedure represents the shift from structural reforms in the judiciary to functional models that make technology a central instrument for improving efficiency, transparency and administrative surveillance. At the same time, new challenges are posed, such as discrepancies in access to digital technologies, risks to procedural equity, and growing tensions between procedural innovations of courts and static provisions of traditional civil procedural law. The study concludes that Indonesia's path to modern justice depends not only on the adoption of technology, but also on the development of a coherent regulatory protection system, a data governance framework, and an inclusive digital infrastructure capable of ensuring that the efficiency of technology does not undermine the basic and procedural ideals of civil justice.