Indexa is an Indonesian legal-civic technology firm. Founded in 2016 at the Center for Law and Technology Studies, Faculty of Law, Universitas Indonesia — by a lawyer and an engineer who believed the country's legal system would not be fixed by lawyers alone, nor by engineers alone.
In 2015, Evandri G. Pantouw — then a young lawyer working on cyber security, e-commerce, and corporate law — was co-working at the Center for Law and Technology Studies at Universitas Indonesia. RM Agung Setiawan, an information-technology graduate who was also studying law, was building tools in the same room.
They had the same diagnosis: "unavailability of accurate, up-to-date and integrated legal data leads to weak law enforcement quality." Indonesia's legal data was spread across sources, rapidly changing, and frequently inaccurate — and that gap was hurting legal professionals, government, and the people who depended on the system most.
In 2016 they incorporated Indexa. The premise — still the premise — is that the seam between code and law is where most public-sector projects fail, and that the only way to fix it is to staff both sides of the seam in the same room.
"Indexa focuses on enabling legal professionals to find, integrate, and visualize each of data — to give deeper understanding and connection between legal information."
Evandri G. Pantouw and RM Agung Setiawan meet at the Center for Law and Technology Studies, Faculty of Law, Universitas Indonesia. The diagnosis is shared: legal data in Indonesia is fragmented, fast-changing, and not accurate enough for working professionals.
Indexa is formally incorporated as PT Indexa Imaji Hukum. The premise: the seam between code and law is where most public-sector projects fail — and the only way to fix it is to staff both sides of the seam in the same room.
Pantau Peradilan — a mobile court-monitoring app with configurable surveys — ships for civil-society partners. Katahukum, a knowledge-management platform for justice seekers, follows. Street Crime mapping for Jakarta launches.
Selected as an Impact Startup by YSEALI / East-West Center. Partnerships begin with The Asia Foundation and Kemitraan. First engagements with Bappenas and Bank Indonesia on data-driven governance work.
Work begins with the Attorney General's Office on the Prisoner Management System — tracking detention process, trial status, and reminders across each step of handling a prisoner. EProbono marketplace launches as a meeting point between justice seekers and pro-bono advocates.
Policy brief on Indonesia's national cyber-security strategy, with comparative research across ASEAN counterparts. Assists Indonesia in the United Nations Governmental Group of Experts on Cyber Security.
50,000 narcotic cases serve as the baseline data set for the Narcotic Requisitor Calculator built for the Attorney General Office. Indexa partners with UNDP on the IRJI program for integrated juvenile case management — connecting four law-enforcement bodies and two service providers in one system.
Indexa produces baseline information and gap-analysis research feeding into Law No. 12 of 2022 on Sexual Violence — covering criminal offence definitions, victim treatment, and rehabilitation process.
Indexa Analytic, Legal Search Engine, and Data Crawler converge into one platform. Eight sub-products across three focus areas — Analytic, Legal Professional, Digital Government — serve thirteen-plus partner institutions.
CEO Evandri Pantouw is an alum of the YSEALI program — the U.S. flagship for emerging Southeast Asian leaders, run in partnership with the East-West Center in Honolulu.
The CEO is also a ChangemakerXchange fellow — a global community connecting social innovators working on systems-level change.
Multi-year work with UNDP on the IRJI program — integrated juvenile case management connecting law-enforcement bodies and service providers.
Comrade in development-cooperation programs across the legal and justice sector in Indonesia.
Listed by Indexa as a partner institution in the company profile — engagement with the central bank on data-driven governance and information design.
Sustained engagements: Prisoner Management System, Narcotic Requisitor Calculator, Standard Operational Procedure for Criminal Cases.
Indexa assisted Indonesia and ASEAN counterparts in the UN process on cyber-security policy — published as a national policy brief.
Indexa's research on sexual-violence offence, victim treatment, and rehabilitation contributed to baseline information for Law No. 12 of 2022.
Unavailability of accurate, up-to-date, and integrated legal data leads to weak law enforcement quality. Legal data in Indonesia is spread over various sources, rapidly changing, and frequently inaccurate. These make it difficult for legal professionals, government, and society to get quality and holistic legal information.
The use of partial and non-qualified legal information in law-making and enforcement makes law ineffective — and at the extreme leads to false processes of law. The cost falls hardest on the people with the least power to do anything about it: justice seekers, court monitors, paralegals, and the citizens caught at the wrong end of a poorly-implemented rule.
Our mission is to close the access gap. To enable legal professionals to find, integrate, and visualize each piece of data — to give deeper understanding and connection between legal information. To reform and gear up the workflow of legal research, information gathering, and professional practice in commercial, litigation, and public-service legal assistance.
Primary focus. Access to justice, accountability of legal institutions, transparency in lawmaking.
Research and information design supporting frameworks for victims of sexual violence and the protection of women and children.
Closing the access gap for justice seekers underserved by the existing legal infrastructure.
Legal literacy through Katahukum and other knowledge-management products for the public.
If you're a ministry, civil-society organization, multilateral partner, or law firm working at the seam of code and law — we'd like to hear what you're building.