<![CDATA[The development of blockchain technology and smart contracts presents both challenges and opportunities for the notary profession in Indonesia. As a public official authorized to make authentic deeds, a notary acts as a trusted third party guaranteeing legal certainty, evidentiary power, and security. This research aims to analyze the transformation of the notary's role in the decentralized, autonomous, and self-executing ecosystem of smart contracts. The research method used is normative legal research with conceptual and literature study approaches. The results show that smart contracts cannot fully replace the function of notaries due to their limitations in accommodating non-binary legal aspects, verifying the identity and capacity of parties off-chain, and resolving disputes. However, notaries can transform by integrating themselves as trusted oracles, providers of digital identity verification, and legal consultants for designing contract logic and storing supporting document hashes on the blockchain. To support this transformation, a reinterpretation of the Notary Public Office Law (UUJN), recognition of certified electronic signatures and document hashes as valid evidence, and the development of adaptive technical standards and professional ethics are required. This transformation will strengthen the position of notaries as trusted third parties in the digital era.]]>
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