The Effectiveness of Deed Making Through Video Conferences in the Digital Age

Abstract

This research aims to analyse the influence of the digital era on civil law evidentiary procedures and the evidentiary power of deeds presented through video conferencing in civil case trials. This normative legal research uses a statutory, conceptual, and case approach. The study found that first, the digital era has encouraged the increase in electronic transactions among the public and provides benefits and benefits with the convenience of conducting electronic transactions, where the strong influence of the digital era has a significant impact on changing the forms that were previously only known as written documents and then turning into electronic documents that can also be used and submitted as evidence in court, especially considering the rapid and massive development and progress of the digital era, of course, it also encourages the urgency of doing notarial deeds through Video Conference. Second, the evidentiary power of deeds presented through video conferences in the trial of civil cases based on positive law in Indonesia is not recognised as electronic evidence. So that notarial deeds other than the exception of Article 77 § 1 of the Company Law, which states that the holding of GMS can also use video conferencing or other electronic media facilities, the rest must remain subject to and comply with the enactment of the UUJN which requires that the authenticity of the making of a Notarial Deed must be in front of a Notary with direct physical presence.