LEGAL AID ORGANIZATION PROBLEM IN PROVIDING LEGAL AID TO IMPOVERISHED COMMUNITY IN INDONESIA

Abstract

Based on data from the Ministry of Law and Human Rights, in 2022, there are 619 registered legal aid organizations that have passed verification as legal aid providers, as mandated in the legal aid law. Despite this number, there are still many legal aid organizations or community organizations that have not been registered yet provide legal aid services. This research aims to identify and analyze the problem of providing legal aid by Legal Aid Organizations (LAO) in Indonesia and efforts to overcome this problem. The research method used is empirical juridical using primary and secondary data. The results of the research show that the problems encountered include only accredited legal aid organizations receiving funding from the government, the uneven distribution of legal aid organizations, an imbalance between legal aid recipients and the number of accredited legal aid organizations, the minimal amount of budget received by legal aid organizations, as well as procedural problems in terms of reporting and evaluation which sometimes burden legal aid organizations. Efforts made by the government to overcome the above problems are by creating policies including the application of a legal aid information system, namely SIDBANKUM, conducting intensive outreach to the wider community and a wider scope regarding the existence of LAO, collaborating and coordinating with regional governments and various relevant law enforcement agencies, carrying out screening of LAO in the regions in order to verify accreditation for the next period and increase the capacity of legal aid implementers