TINJAUAN YURIDIS PERLINDUNGAN PARA PIHAK DALAM PERJANJIAN WARALABA (STUDI KASUS PERJANJIAN WARALABA NIRA TELA FRIED CASSAVA)

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ABSTRAK Perjanjian waralaba merupakan perjanjian yang dibuat dalam bentuk perjanjian baku, yang dibuat oleh Franchisor dan diberlakukan terhadap semua calon Franchisee tanpa terkecuali. Oleh karena itu, calon Franchisee hanya dapat memilih menerima atau menolak perjanjian tersebut tanpa ikut menentukan isinya. Franchisor mempunyai peluang diuntungkan, dimana Franchisor dapat menentukan syarat yang cukup memberatkan franchisee dikarenakan untuk mengantisipasi kemungkinan terjadinya kerugian franchisor, maka kedudukan para pihak di dalam perjanjian tidak seimbang, dimana Franchisor mempunyai kedudukan yang kuat dalam menentukan perjanjian yang dibuatnya. Dalam perjanjian waralaba nira tela fried cassava ada kenyataan, bahwa Franchisee cenderung dalam posisi yang lemah, karena franchisor dapat membuat klausula yang mementingkan kepentingannya. Perlu dianalisis dalam penelitian yaitu apakah perjanjian waralaba nira tela fried cassava telah memenuhi asas kebebasan berkontrak dan asas itikad baik, serta bagaimana perlindungan hukum para pihak dalam perjanjian. Penelitian ini penulis menggunakan metode pendekatan masalah yuridis normatif, dengan menganalisis perjanjian waralaba nira tela fried cassava dan dengan studi kepustakaan dengan mencari literatur yang terkait dengan analisis penelitian ini. Asas kebebasan berkontrak dalam perjanjian waralaba nira tela fried cassava kurang dapat terpenuhi, karena dari lima unsur asas kebebasan berkontrak hanya dua unsur yang dapat terpenuhi. Begitu juga dengan asas itikad baik dalam perjanjian waralaba nira tela fried cassava kurang dapat terpenuhi, karena selain ada klausula yang mementingkan kepentingan franchisee juga ada klausula yang mementingkan kepentingan franchisor yang memberatkan franchisee. Berdasarkan hal tersebut diatas perlu perlindungan hukum para pihak mengenai perjanjian baku, yaitu Undang-Undang Perlindungan Konsumen Nomor 8 Tahun 1999, dan perlindungan hukum para pihak mengenai perjanjian waralaba, yaitu penyelesaian sengketa perjanjian waralaba nira tela fried cassava.Kata kunci : Waralaba, Perjanjian Waralaba, Perlindungan Hukum Kata Kunci: Waralaba, Perjanjian Waralaba, Perlindungan Hukum ABSTRACT A franchise agreement is an agreement composed in form of a Standard agreement, composed by the franchisor and applied to all candidates of franchisee without any exception. Therefore, the candidates of franchisee may choose only to eccept or recuse that agreement without being included in determining the contents. The franchisor has the opportunity to have the advantages, in which, the franchisor is able to determine the conditions that aggravate the franchisee in order to anticipate the posibility of loss occurrence to the franchisor. Therefore, the position of the parties in this agreement is not equal, in which, the franchisor has the stronger position in determining the agreement, composed by them. In the nira tela fried cassava franchise agreement,there is a Fact that the franchisee tend to be in the weak position because the franchisor may be able to create the clauses bringing advantanges to their interests. The matters that need to be analyzed in this research are that, has the nira tela fried cassava franchise agreement fulfilled the principles of freedom to create contract and the principles of good intention, and how the legal protection for the parties in the agreement is. In this research, the writer uses the juridical-normative method of approach, by analyzing the nira tela fried cassava franchise agreement and by conducting a literature study by searching for the literatur connected to the analysis of this research. The principles of freedom to create contract in the nira tela fried cassava franchise agreement cannot be fully fulfilled because from the five elements of the principles of freedom of create contract, only two of them can be fulfilled. Same as the principles of good intention in this nira tela fried cassava franchise agreement; they cannot be fully fulfilled because, besides there are clauses bringing advantages to the franchisor’s interests, there are also clauses bringing advantages to the franchisor’s interests that aggravate the franchisee. Based on the above-mentioned matters, a legal protection for the parties concerning Standard agreement is required, which is the Customer Protection Act Number 8 Year 1999 and legal protection for the parties concerning the franchise agreement, which is, the resolution of disputes in the Nira Tela Fried Cassava Franchise Agreement. Keyword : franchise, franchise agreement, legal protection