Notary’s authority in the digital era: from electronic deeds to cloud computing public documents storage

This study aims to elaborate on cyber notary arrangements related to notary services in making electronic authentic deeds and the urgency of storing them through cloud computing. This study uses normative legal research methods with primary, secondary, and tertiary sources of legal materials, and uses the snowball technique in tracing legal materials with argumentative descriptive analysis. The results of the study show that making electronic authentic deeds and storing them in cloud computing is not included in the scope of a cyber notary in the context of other notary authorities as stipulated in Article 15 paragraph (3) of the Notary Official Law. Thus, a notarial deed made electronically is not perfect evidence. Electronic-based notary services play an important and necessary role in supporting business transactions that are more effective and efficient and have legal certainty in the digital technology era, as well as storing minutes of deeds through cloud computing is relevant to be regulated in relation to physical storage loads that require space and operational costs avoiding physical damage to the minutes of deed documents due to termites or humidity in the storage room. Transformation of the concept of a cyber notary in a broader context includes the making of deeds electronically, both Remote Online Notary and Hybrid Notary, as well as storage of minutes of deeds with cloud computing based on the security of important electronic document data based on rules that have legal certainty.