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.
