“Education, population, tourism, police, social affairs, court decisions, sports, religion, and land documents can be issued apostille starting June. The process only takes a maximum of three working days if the required documents are complete. If lacking, the applicant will be given seven days to complete it. It costs around Rp150,000,” explained Cahyo.
Cahyo added that currently the submission of application can be done by Indonesian citizens anywhere, but the printing of an apostille can only be done at the Law and Human Rights Ministry in Jakarta.
“The government will continue to develop the apostille system so that later Kemenkumham regional office in each province can also print the certificate,” he said.
Indonesia has become a member country of the Apostille Convention after ratifying Convention of 5 October 1961 Abolishing the Requirement of Legalization for Foreign Public Documents through Presidential Regulation 2/2021. (rr)