an application of open to public principles in electronic trial through elitigation

One of the principles of a court hearing is that it is open to the public. it means that everyone hasthe right to attend and know it as a form of community control over the trial process, unless otherwisedetermined by law, the trial is conducted in private. however, with the implementation of the caseinvestigation through electronic or commonly referred to as e-litigation, the community feels that itlimited their right to know the course of the trial process as a form of social control. the research methodused was normative juridical research that was research conducted by examining library materials whichinclude primary legal materials sourced from various laws and regulations and secondary legal materialsin the form of explanations used to analyze primary legal materials in the form of expert views,academics, practitioners or judges through interviews, document searches, books and scientific papers.then, the legal material was identified and analyzed to achieve the objectives of this research. the resultsof the research showed that the settlement of the case through an electronic trial had not yet fully fulfilledthe principle of a trial open to the public because in the process of answering it was only known by theparties who had litigated. it is hoped that this research can provide input for judicial institutions toimprove electronic trial devices so that they can be more beneficial to the community.