Indonesia will soon join the Hague Convention

Indonesia will soon join the Hague Convention

Indonesia is completing the process of accession to the Hague Convention abolishing the Requirement to Legalize Foreign Official Documents, dated October 5, 1961, known as the Apostille Convention, one of the most successful treaties in the field of private international law worldwide.
On October 5, 2021, the Republic of Indonesia deposited its instrument of accession to the Convention.

It will be formally possible to apostille documents in Indonesia from June 4, 2022, but it has not yet been reported which specific authority will stamp the apostille. So far, it is possible to legalize Indonesian documents only by resorting to the procedure of consular legalization.

Every year tens of thousands of Indonesian citizens travel abroad for the purpose of education, employment and medical care. The conditions for doing business are expanding both for foreigners in Indonesia and for Indonesian citizens in other countries.
In order to simplify the process of recognition of foreign documents, a Convention was signed in 1961 in The Hague (Netherlands) abolishing the requirement of legalization of foreign official documents.
The Hague Convention, instead of this time-consuming process, introduces a new procedure, according to which, in order to verify the authenticity (origin) of an official document, an "apostille" is affixed by the competent authority of the state where the document was made. An apostille is a special stamp that is affixed to official documents and does not require further certification in the member countries of the Hague Convention on Apostille.