VALIDITY OF ONLINE TRANSACTION AGREEMENTS IN THE DIGITAL ERA
Ahmad Munawir Siregar, Hamdan Azhar Siregar, Siti Miskiah, Nino Agung Perdana

Universitas Islam Jakarta

Abstract

A new phenomenon in the digital era where it is easy to access buying and selling transactions online. Buying and selling online, one of which can be accessed in applications such as shopee, tokopedia, gofood, and others. Various age groups are free to conduct online transactions, ranging from children to the elderly. Buying and selling agreements in online transactions are not spared from the provisions of Article 1320 of the Civil Code where there are 4 legal requirements in an agreement, namely the agreement of the parties, competence, a certain matter, and a lawful cause. What is interesting is the skill of the parties as one of the legal elements. In online transactions, this element of fatigue needs to be questioned because there are many cases of minors making purchases through online transactions. Even the online transactions of buying and selling alcohol and sharp weapons are carried out by children who are not yet adults. The problem in this research is how to implement buying and selling online in Indonesia? what are the juridical implications of buying alcohol and sharp weapons online by minors? The purpose of this study is to analyze the implementation of online buying and selling in Indonesia and the juridical implications of online purchases of alcohol and sharp weapons by minors. The results of the study revealed that minors can purchase any type of goods in the online shop. For example, there are several online shops selling alcohol and sharp weapons, so if there is no strict monitoring of a person^s skills in online transactions, it will lead to legal problems where minors can buy alcohol and sharp weapons freely. The juridical implication requires changes to related laws regarding the age limit for making purchases online and the rules regarding being required to include an ID card in all online purchases

Keywords: Online Transactions, Minors, Digital Era

Topic: International Law