Summary: | The existence of Notaries is closely related to public trust. Given the trust
awarded, a notary is obliged to keep secrecy on the everything related to the
contents of the deed that he or she makes and all information related that to the
deeds, which he or she obtains. Much attention have been given to notaries due to
various criminal cases involving notaries. Abuses on authority and obligation
which the notaries perform need legal consequences. Therefore, it is necessary to
identify the types of abuses which the notaries performed in terms of the notary�s
right of refusal and its preventions.
Based on the aforementioned, problem investigated in this research
involve: What are the types of abuses related the notary�s right of refusal in crime
investigation and what actions that the investigators carry out on such abuses.
Normative and empirical juridical method and specification used in this research
was normative descriptive study.
Based on the result, it is concluded that when notaries are called by the
police investigators, the notaries will not answer investigator�s questions that has
already been stated in the deeds. In addition, the notaries may not fulfill police
investigator� call due to unvailibility of the decision from Majelis Pengawas
Daerah (Local Supervisory Board).
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