Overview

The legal profession of lawyer or advocate is the most common career path which is followed by law-school graduates. While Indonesia’s various advocates associations have never published any official advocate numbers, in 2016, the Minister of Finance claimed that the number of lawyers in Indonesia had reached 16,789. However, as a highly demanding and technical vocation, it is vital that this profession is properly regulated. Efforts to formulate a law on advocates first got underway as far back as September 2000 and Law No. 18 of 2003 on Advocates (“Advocates Law”) was eventually introduced back in April of 2003.[1]