of Doing Business (Eodb) Media released in 2019, it states that Indonesia itself is still ranked
73 in terms of ease of doing business, which is certainly still very far behind when compared
to other Southeast Asian countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, and Vietnam which are ranked
in the top 40 (forty) in the world (Asmara et al., 2019).
Eodb has a measure in terms of determining the ranking index which consists of several
factors including starting a business, making arrangements related to construction permits,
electricity installations, property registration, obtaining loans or credits, protecting minority
investors, trading across borders, paying taxes, enforcing contracts, resolving insolvency and
the last is related to employment. Of the ten indices above, one of the indices that are directly
related to Notaries in practice is related to the starting business index, which is closely related
to the establishment of business entities along with the operational licenses needed by the
business field being run.
About the ease of licensing, notaries themselves continue to be encouraged to be able to
increase their capabilities following the development of the digital disruption era, as the
message of the President of the Republic of Indonesia Mr. Joko Widodo at the 29th Congress
of the Indonesian Notary Association (INI) in Jakarta, where the President advised notaries to
adjust to the era of digital progress (Putra & Imanuel, 2019).
One of the implementations of licensing ease and licensing digitalization carried out by
the Government is the use of Online Single Submission (OSS) in licensing management in
Indonesia. In its application, the OSS system is a one-stop licensing portal where business
actors or entrepreneurs can access and manage all types of licenses by the business fields being
run. OSS itself brings an automatic breakthrough that answers the need for ease of doing
business by uniforming all licenses and no longer requires the need for physical document
verification, A significant difference when looking at OSS-based licensing with conventional
licensing is that through OSS the applicant can obtain a permit first and then fulfill the existing
requirements, while in the conventional licensing system the applicant must fulfill all existing
requirements first so that the permit is issued, this is what makes OSS a breakthrough in the
ease of doing business that the government hopes can improve the business climate and
investment in Indonesia (Munalar et al., 2020).
Before the birth of the OSS system in Indonesia, several factors became obstacles or
obstacles to the implementation of ease of doing business in Indonesia, some of these reasons
made business actors prefer to run their businesses without taking care of business licenses,
one of which was the problem of bureaucratic complexity, before the OSS system there were
many licenses that had to be taken care of by various agencies and not done at one time so that
business actors felt that a lot of time and energy was needed to process business licenses. The
next factor is related to the regulation that the implementation of licensing does not run
uniformly between districts and cities so business actors find it difficult to adjust different
regulations and requirements. Then business actors also feel afraid of the obligation to pay
taxes, this occurs due to a lack of knowledge about taxation and about business licenses that
must be owned by the business sector run by business actors (Tarina, 2020).
The OSS system itself is implemented in Indonesia under the legal umbrella of
Government Regulation Number 24 of 2018 concerning Electronically Integrated Business
Services (PP No. 24 of 2018) which has been amended through Government Regulation