Virtual Legal Aid Post (Posbakum) in The New Normal Era
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.211112.027How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- access to justice; legal aid; Posbakum; e-court
- Abstract
As a means of access to justice for the poor, the existence of the Posbakum can make it easier to obtain information, consultations, legal advice, and produce legal documents. In a pandemic situation like now, many people need legal aid, such as debtors who are unable to repay their debts, employees who are unilaterally laid off, or cases of domestic violence. However, the emergence of the Covid-19 outbreak made it difficult for the public to access the Posbakum because they had to go to it directly. This paper aims to analyze the implementation of the Posbakum procedures in the new normal era that apply social restrictions and physical contact. Even though since 2018, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Indonesia has implemented an E-Court system in court and since the Covid-19 pandemic started has held virtual trials. However, the Posbakum service has not been integrated with the current E-Court system. The method used is a qualitative method with data collection techniques through literature study and coupled with normative studies of the regulations related to the Posbakum service. The results showed that it is necessary to integrate the Posbakum service into the E-Court system of the Supreme Court of The Republic of Indonesia and the legal aid information database system (Sidbankum), which is managed by The Agency of National Legal Development (BPHN) of Ministry of Law and Human Rights as the mandate holder for legal aid administrators according to Law No. 16 of 2011 on Legal Aid.
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- © 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Muhamad Zaky Albana AU - Zulfia Hanum Alfi Syahr PY - 2021 DA - 2021/11/23 TI - Virtual Legal Aid Post (Posbakum) in The New Normal Era BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Law and Human Rights 2021 (ICLHR 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 209 EP - 214 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211112.027 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211112.027 ID - Albana2021 ER -