putusan-ma

Putusan Mahkamah Agung — Supreme Court Decisions

Agency: Mahkamah Agung RI (Supreme Court of Indonesia) Portal: https://putusan3.mahkamahagung.go.id API type: ✅ Public web search + full-text HTML/PDF access

Overview

Millions of Indonesian court decisions publicly accessible: civil, criminal, commercial, administrative (TUN), and religious courts. Searchable by keyword, case number, judge, court, and year.

Search

import requests

BASE = "https://putusan3.mahkamahagung.go.id"

resp = requests.post(
    f"{BASE}/search/index/pencarian/ajax/putusan",
    json={
        "q": "wanprestasi kontrak",
        "tahun": "2024",
        "jenis_doc": "Putusan",
        "page": 1,
    },
    headers={"X-Requested-With": "XMLHttpRequest"},
    timeout=30,
)
results = resp.json()

Pagination

import time

for page in range(1, 50):
    data = requests.post(
        f"{BASE}/search/index/pencarian/ajax/putusan",
        json={"q": "wanprestasi", "tahun": "2023", "page": page},
        headers={"X-Requested-With": "XMLHttpRequest"},
        timeout=30,
    ).json()
    decisions = data.get("data", [])
    if not decisions:
        break
    for d in decisions:
        print(d.get("nomor"), d.get("tanggal_musyawarah"))
    time.sleep(1)

Court Types

Code	Description
PN	Pengadilan Negeri (District Court)
PT	Pengadilan Tinggi (High Court)
MA	Mahkamah Agung (Supreme Court)
PA	Pengadilan Agama (Religious Court)
PTUN	Pengadilan Tata Usaha Negara (Administrative Court)

Case Types

Code	Type
Pdt.G	Civil lawsuit
Pid.B	Criminal
Pdt.Sus-PHI	Labor dispute
TUN	Administrative
Ag	Religious/Islamic

Gotchas

1. No auth required — all decisions publicly accessible
2. POST for search, GET for detail — different verbs
3. Millions of records — use specific queries + year filters
4. Older decisions are scanned PDFs — need OCR for text extraction
5. Rate limit — 1s delay between pages is sufficient