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Budihardjo Hardisurjo, M. S. Tumanggor and St. Laksanto Utomo ask how Indonesian and Thai law can be bridged for cross-border digital commerce without removing legitimate national regulatory autonomy. Their comparison covers electronic transactions, consumer protection, personal data, cybersecurity and platform services.
Using normative, conceptual and comparative methods, the authors examine national legislation alongside UNCITRAL instruments and ASEAN agreements. They find convergence in functional equivalence, electronic authentication, privacy protection and consumer confidence, but divergence in platform supervision, institutional design, cross-border data-transfer safeguards and remedies, leading them to propose minimum interoperable standards rather than wholesale legal unification.
How Indonesian and Thai rules governing cross-border digital commerce— including recognition of electronic transactions, data governance, platform accountability, consumer redress and online dispute resolution—can be harmonised through minimum interoperable standards.
The article’s concrete contribution is to frame the Indonesia–Thailand comparison around functional harmonisation rather than wholesale legal unification, linking mutual recognition of electronic transactions with data safeguards, platform accountability, consumer redress and online dispute resolution. That framework bears directly on how cross-border digital commerce in ASEAN might pursue greater legal certainty while preserving national regulatory space.
Siber International Journal of Advanced Law (SIJAL) · 2026
DOI 10.38035/sijal.v4i1.411
Budihardjo Hardisurjo, M. S. Tumanggor, St. Laksanto Utomo, “Bridging Legal Systems in The Era of Digital Commerce: A Comparative Study of Indonesia and Thailand”, Siber International Journal of Advanced Law (SIJAL), 2026-09-18, 10.38035/sijal.v4i1.411. https://doi.org/10.38035/sijal.v4i1.411