How Artificial Intelligence Can be Useful for Criminal Courts in Indonesia

The development of science has given rise to the idea of an artificial intelligence (AI) judge, who knows everything, without bias or emotion, and is able to decide cases based on the applicable rules. There are many practices of using AI by criminal courts in various countries, this can be a benchmark for Indonesia in developing AI to assist the work of judges. The main objective of this research is to determine the role of AI in assisting criminal court tasks in Indonesia and the challenges that must be considered. This research is normative legal research with statutory and comparative approach as its methodology. The results of this research show that there are many capabilities of AI that can be utilized to make it easier to handle criminal cases in court. However, there are still several issues in AI learning that need attention. This research concludes that the current capabilities of AI are still limited, but the capabilities it currently has are very applicable in several aspects of work in Indonesian criminal courts. The readiness of human resources and the establishment of adequate regulations are important in using AI to assist the work of the courts.