15/05/2014

Getting to know one of today's popular electronic transactions


With the development of information and electronics technology, humans are increasingly facilitated in performing daily activities. One of the important activities which usually carried out is doing trade with other parties in the form of sale and purchase. This is done to meet the growing needs of life from time to time. Therefore, humans make any media to conduct a trade transactions including through electronic media.
Electronic transactions began to develop along with the development of technology and human needs which increasingly complex. In Indonesia, the regulation regarding electronic transactions has been stipulated in Law No.11 of 2008 concerning Information and Electronic Transactions. In this regulation, an electronic transaction is defined as a legal act performed by using a computer, computer network, and/or other electronic media. From that sense, it appears that electronic transaction has a very broad scope not only dwell in the terms of trade but all legal actions that will result the rights and obligations for the parties, as well as the media used, not only the computer but all kinds of electronics stuff which allow the occurrence of a transaction. It is different from the understanding of which is delivered by the businessmen; they interpret electronic transactions as electronic commerce.