A marketplace for legal services, Justika announced an undisclosed seed funding led by East Ventures, with participation from Skystar Capital. The fresh funds will be used for product development, marketing and talent recruitment to provide added value to users.
East Ventures’ Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Willson Cuaca said the access to legal justice is still a big problem in Indonesia. This is due to the complex procedures and the lack of information about legal access.
“Justika has built a platform that can connect lawyers and clients, where they can use various available features. We believe that Justika will democratize legal access and help millions of Indonesians to better understand the law,” he said in an official statement, Tuesday (22/6).
Supporting Willson’s statement with a quote from the “Research Report on Access to Justice in Indonesia 2019” released by the Indonesian Judicial Research Society, Indonesian Legal Roundtable, and the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation, around 110 million Indonesians have experienced significant legal problems in the last two years.
As many as 71% of them give up on finding solutions because the difficulty to gain access, either because they don’t know what to do or don’t know where to go. Despite these challenges, Justika believes that there is great potential in this industry. With the legal market estimated to be worth $7.5 billion, Justika plans to expand the user base and its product line.
Currently, Justika focuses on three legal areas often faced by the community, family law, law involving small and medium enterprises, and property law. The company plans to expand and provide access to other legal services the community needs.
“We plan to double our revenue by targeting 7,000 unique monthly paying users next year,” Justika’s Co-Founder and CEO Melvin Sumapung said.
Justika is a digital platform created to connect people who need legal services with lawyers and other support services, such as company establishment agents and translators. The Justika platform is not only innovating how people find lawyers, but also how lawyers work.
Justika uses natural language processing technology or NLP to match clients with attorneys based on service specialties. Once matched, clients can consult a lawyer and get a reply in less than five minutes.
Furthermore, lawyers can also provide other services depending on the client’s needs, such as review or drafting of documents, telephone consultations, negotiations, and advocacy in court. On the other hand, lawyers can easily establish connection with clients through Justika.
Justika is part of Hukumonline legal portal founded by Ahmad Fikri Assegaf, a senior partner at the firm AHP (Assegaf Hamzah & Partners). Ahmad also acts as a co-founder at Justika. Hukumonline now plays an important role in providing better access to justice through online databases, legal analysis, legal clinics, and news.
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Original article is in Indonesian, translated by Kristin Siagian