Overview

For decades, the government, academics and practitioners alike have attempted to establish a civil procedural law framework within Indonesia that accommodates various developments within the field that do not feature under the currently applicable Dutch-inherited regulatory framework on civil procedural law. Any such new framework should also codify existing Indonesian laws and regulations that currently address provisions on civil procedural law separately. In 2004, a draft bill on this law was listed under the 2004 Priority National Legislation Program (“Prolegnas”).[1] However, as the years rolled by, the draft bill seemed to have been relegated in terms of its importance as it was no longer included in the Prolegnas.[2] This situation persisted until a subsequent Draft Bill on Civil Procedural Law was finally listed under the 2019 Priority Prolegnas.[3]