Kepailitan diharapkan menjadi upaya terakhir penyelesaian masalah utang-piutang yang dapat dilaksanakan dengan mudah, cepat dan efektif. Untuk itu Undang-Undang Kepailitan menggunakan lembaga lelang sebagai alternatif utama untuk penjualan (eksekusi) harta pailit. Di samping itu jika lelang tidak tercapai dimungkinkan dilakukan penjualan di bawah tangan oleh Kurator dengan izin Hakim Pengawas. Meskipun pada dasarnya lelang mempunyai asas-asas yang sangat tepat sebagai sarana penjualan harta pailit, tetapi dalam pelaksanaannya ternyata tidak selalu demikian. sehingga menimbulkan tambahan biaya yang akan membebani harta pailit. Jadi sering terjadi sudah beberapa kali dilelang, harta pailit, tidak terjual. Dalam hal jika sudah dilakukan lelang, tidak terjual juga, maka Undang-Undang Kepailitan memberikan alternatif penyelesaian dengan cara penjualan di bawah tangan, yang harus dengan izin Hakim Pengawas. Undang-Undang Kepailitan sendiri tidak memberikan kriteria apa dan bagaimana yang dimaksud dengan penjualan di bawah tangan. Sehingga dalam prakteknya, Kurator mencari jalan keluar sendiri, yang mana agar bisa diterima oleh Hakim Pengawas dengan tidak menyalahi peraturan perundang-undangan yang ada. Yang dilakukan oleh Kurator untuk melakukan penjualan di bawah tangan didahului dengan melakukan penilaian atas harta pailit yang dilakukan oleh Penilai Independen, meminta persetujuan para Kreditor, sehingga akan didapat harga yang wajar.
Bankruptcy becomes significant problem in Indonesia as the monetary and economic crisis in 2008. Bankruptcy is expected to be a last resort debt-settlement issues that can be implemented easily, quickly and effectively. For that use the Bankruptcy Act as the main alternative auction institutions for bankruptcy asset sales. Besides, if the auction is not possible to be achieved unofficial public auction (direct sale) with the permission of the Supervisory Judge. Although basically the auction has principles that is appropriate as a means of bankruptcy asset sales, but its execution was not always so. Often there is an auction sale of the assets of bankrupt (bankruptcy assets execution) does not occur because there are no bids, or bidders only one person, resulting in additional costs which will burden the bankruptcy assets. This happens because the auction is not fully understood by society and the lack of dissemination of information about the auction. In case if you've done an auction, not sold as well, so by the Bankruptcy Act provide alternative solutions by way of sale unofficial public auction (direct sale) to the assets of bankrupt, which should be with the permission of the Supervisory Judge. Bankruptcy Act itself does not provide criteria for how and what is meant by the sale under the counter. Thus, in practice, the curator looking for a way out themselves, which in order to be accepted by the Supervisory Judge rules to not infringe existing legislation. Conducted by the curator to make direct sale preceded by conducting assessments of the bankruptcy assets conducted by the Independent Appraiser, requested approval of its creditors, which will get a fair price.
