RRI.CO.ID, Depok - The Indonesian government, through the Ministry of Law, has reaffirmed its commitment to protecting and ensuring that Indonesian musicians receive fair royalties. Law Minister, Supratman Andi Agtas, outlined concrete measures currently being pursued, including improvements to royalty governance and the national system for recording copyrighted works.

The minister also said that royalties are the economic rights of creators and must not be taken. “This is someone’s right. It must not be taken,” he said during a seminar on music royalties titled What's Up Podcast Kemenkum Campus Calls Out at Universitas Indonesia in Depok on Monday, 9 February 2026.

He noted that many songwriters have been reluctant to register their works due to administrative costs. As a result, numerous works remain officially unrecorded, limiting legal protection and preventing optimal royalty distribution.

“I have instructed the Director General of Intellectual Property and the Director of Copyright that we are revising the Government Regulation on Non-Tax State Revenue (PNBP) for song registration. We are introducing a clustering scheme. For one to one hundred songs, the PNBP fee will be Rp200,000. So, for one hundred songs, the payment is made only once,” Minister Supratman explained.

Through this adjustment to the PNBP policy, the government aims to make the registration process more affordable and ensure that costs no longer become a barrier for musicians to record their works.

Beyond regulatory and fee reforms, the government will also strengthen the national song database system. The system functions as an official record of ownership to ensure that royalty distribution is conducted accurately, transparently, and fairly for rightful creators.

“We are making all these changes to create transparency and accountability, and they are solely intended for the benefit of musicians and the entire ecosystem,” he said.

At the global level, Indonesia is also pushing for digital royalty justice by submitting a legally binding proposal to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), aimed at strengthening the protection of creators’ economic rights in the cross-border digital ecosystem.

“As part of the responsibility of the current legal administration, we have submitted a proposal to WIPO through the Director General and the Head of the Legal Policy Strategy Agency. What we call this is a legally binding proposal to achieve fairness in royalties,” he conveyed.

Through these measures, the government underscores its presence in ensuring that Indonesian musicians’ works are fairly valued, both nationally and globally.