The Implementation of Notary's Supervision on Tariff War in Semarang

Notary is a general official who is not paid by the Government, but get honorarium for services provided to his clients. Therefore, the government and the Indonesian Notary Association (INI), as a Notary organization, regulates the Notary's honorarium. Regulation from the government is done by the Notary Law which regulates the maximum limit of honorarium acceptable by the Notary. On the other hand, the rules of the INI are carried out with a Notary Code of Conduct stating that a Notary cannot assign a lower honorarium more than what has been set by the associations. Determination of honorarium by association consists of a letter signed by all members of the association within a region. Nevertheless, there are still many violations committed by Notaries in respect of the determination of honorarium by doing a tariff war. This study aims to find out the reason Notaries commit the tariff warfare violations, as well as provide an ideal implementation of INI's supervision so that tariff war does not occur among Notaries. The research method used is Juridical Empirical with qualitative research. The results reveal the factors that encourage the Notary to engage in tariff war and violate the agreement determined by the association, in this case INI. These driving factors show that the current supervision from INI has not been able to prevent tariff warfare. Therefore, it is necessary to make changes in the supervision that are more appropriate and can be applied in the Notary circles.