Protecting Notaries: Ethical and Legal Perspectives on Professional Practice

Notaries have protection from ethical aspects through the notary code of ethics and law when carrying out their positions. This study examines the ethical and legal protection of notaries in carrying out their profession. The research method used in this journal is normative research. The result of the research is the form of ethical protection of notaries as the presence of a notary code of ethics and supervision by the Notary Supervisory Council and in terms of law, notaries in carrying out their profession are the existence of the Notary Supervisory Council and the Notary Authority Council under Article 66 A paragraph (1) of the Notary Law (UU Jabatan Notaris “UUJN”). On the other hand, legal protection for notaries based on the principle of fault liability is that if an element of fault occurs among the confronters, as long as a notary exercises his authority by what is stated in the law, the notary concerned cannot be held liable because the notary only records all the information he gets from the confronters.