Yusril: Quality of AHU services reflects quality of rule of law
Coordinating Minister for Law, Human Rights, Immigration, and Corrections Yusril Ihza Mahendra has assessed that the quality of General Legal Administration (AHU) services is one of the reflections of Indonesia’s quality as a rule-of-law state.
He made the statement while delivering a keynote speech at the closing of the 2026 AHU Impact Festival in Bandung, West Java, on Monday.
“The discussion about AHU is not merely about administration, but there is a fundamental issue about how the state provides certainty and real legal consequences for its citizens. The quality of services provided by the Directorate General of AHU is a reflection of Indonesia’s quality as a rule-of-law state,” Yusril said in a written statement received in Jakarta.
According to him, AHU should not be viewed merely as a task of recording and managing data. Behind every legal administration service lies certainty regarding the rights, obligations, and legal status of citizens.
Yusril also reminded that the improvement of AHU services has a long history. When serving as Minister of Law and Legislation, he was involved in the division of the Directorate General of Law and Legislation into the Directorate General of General Legal Administration and the Directorate General of Legislation.
At that time, the government began pioneering a technology-based legal service system amid economic recovery following the monetary crisis.
According to Yusril, the process of establishing a legal entity at that time took a long time. Checking a company name could even take up to three months.
This condition not only hampered the business world but also opened up space for illegal levies through the distinction between “fast track” and “slow track”.
“In the past, Indonesia was criticised for being considered slow. We then pioneered the establishment of an integrated public service system, collecting fingerprints and pioneering a single identity number that tracks the life cycle of citizens from birth to marriage,” he said.
Yusril said that approvals that previously took months can now be completed in four days, even within hours.
According to him, the next challenge is to ensure that the various government digital systems do not operate in silos.
Meanwhile, Minister of Law Supratman Andi Agtas said that inter-agency data integration is needed so that the public does not become the link between government systems.
“Ministers cannot work in silos. With mirroring between AHU and Dukcapil, filling in population registration data should no longer be manual,” he said.
Integration will also be developed with the Directorate General of Immigration and Corrections for citizenship services, as well as with the Ministry of Finance regarding company data.
The Ministry of Law is also ready to integrate the AHU system with the digital systems of seven other ministries, with the government data centre located at the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs.
Director General of General Legal Administration Widodo said that service transformation cannot be measured solely by the number of services that have been digitalised. The measure is the extent to which the technology reduces the burden on the public and provides legal certainty.
“AHU digitalisation must lead to impactful services. The public should not be forced to understand the complexity of the bureaucracy and systems we build. It is the state that must simplify them,” he said.