Abstract
In Indonesia doing business with the concept of franchising in various fields is
currently very popular among the people. Doing business with the concept of
franchising is desirable because in addition to being seen in terms of profits and
various ease of doing business offered by the franchisor to the franchisee. Franchising
is based on an agreement called a franchise agreement, but there are not a few legal
problems that arise with the existence of the franchise agreement. Based on this, this
research aims to find out the form of arrangement of the franchise agreement and legal
protection for the parties in the franchise agreement. The normative juridical method is
the method used in this study. This method is intended to analyze the legal materials
related to the arrangements in the franchise agreement and legal protection for the
parties in Indonesia. This study addresses the franchise business agreements including
agreements that are not well-known or innocent and legal protection carried out
further regulated in the Republic of Indonesia's Minister of Trade Regulation Number
53/M-DAG/PER/8/2012 regarding Franchising. The legal status of the parties in the
franchise agreement in force in Indonesia is independent.
Keywords
Regulation; Protection; Parties; Franchise Agreements