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Indonesia's Supreme Court bars uploading draft judgment templates to AI services

A 2 September 2026 Mahkamah Agung letter circulates draft criminal-code judgment templates and bars uploading the drafts to AI services.

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Indonesia’s Supreme Court has circulated draft judgment-writing guidance and templates for the new Criminal Code and Criminal Procedure Code, with an annex that bars court working teams from uploading the draft materials to AI services.

The 2 September 2026 letter, No. 112/WKMA.Y/HK2.1/IX/2026, was signed by the Deputy Chief Justice for Judicial Affairs and addressed to heads of High Courts across Indonesia. It asks for input on draft writing guidance, case-flow material, and standard templates for determinations, hearing minutes and judgments. The AI rule sits in the annex, not in a general regulation.

What does the annex say?

Annex C.3 is a circulation restriction. It does not approve AI drafting by judges. It tells the recipients not to share the draft materials outside the working team, and gives examples of forbidden channels.

The Indonesian text states:

“Dilarang menyebarluaskan rancangan kepada pihak di luar lingkungan tim, termasuk mengunggah ke media sosial, grup terbuka, laman berbagi berkas publik, atau layanan pengolah dokumen dan kecerdasan buatan;” (Annex C.3).

That is a ban on uploading the draft to public file-sharing pages, document-processing services and artificial-intelligence services. The official PDFs contain two deadline statements: the covering letter says input must be received by the working group by 14 September 2026, while the current annex at media/14915 says input is due no later than Friday, 18 September 2026. Because the source is internally inconsistent, this brief does not treat either date as a settled consultation close date.

What does it mean?

  • The instrument is narrow: it protects draft court templates during consultation; the templates and writing guidance are not final rules.
  • The country map marks only this limited circulation instruction as binding, separate from PERADI’s non-binding AI guidance for advocates.

Record: Mahkamah Agung letter 112/WKMA.Y/HK2.1/IX/2026; Indonesia country cell.

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