Pelaksanaan Persidangan Secara Elektronik Dilihat dari Hukum Acara Pidana (Studi di Pengadilan Negeri Medan)

Abstract

Courts as law enforcement agencies are part of the criminal justice system as a place to seek justice for justice seekers with the desire that justice be carried out in a simple manner. For the sake of implementing social distancing, it is not possible for the Court Institution to hold a trial according to pre-arranged standards, because it can cause crowds of people, which causes the risk of spreading the Covid-19 virus to be higher. This has caused court institutions to have to rely on technology to support the continuity of legal services to justice seekers and that's when electronic (online) justice began to be  carried out again, not only in the witness examination agenda but in almost the entire trial process. The problem is to find out how to conduct criminal trials electronically (online) when connected to the Criminal Procedure Code and to find out what factors are faced by the Court in carrying out criminal trials electronically (online). (Study at the Medan District Court). This research uses the legal approach method by analyzing the problems in the field and a conceptual approach. Based on the results of the research conducted, it was found that the results of the implementation of the electronic trial (online) when connected with the Criminal Procedure Code, there are many similarities, but they still have differences that cannot be ignored and the electronic trial is still far from what the trial wanted. this is caused by obstacles that still cannot be overcome.