Indonesia’s New National IP Roadmap

Indonesia is one of the major economies within the Southeast Asia Region. Being the fourth most populated nation, rich in natural resources, and annually contributing approximately 35-40% of the ASEAN total GDP. However, despite all the efforts and initiatives that the Indonesian government that has been undertaken by the Indonesian government, Indonesia remains to be criticized by some of the members of the international community. Both the USTR and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have criticized the issues of rampant piracy and barriers to commercial IP use, placing Indonesia in the USTR’s Special 301 report for over a decade and ranking it 50th of 55 in the 2025 IP Index. For Indonesia, these flaws hinder growth, deter investment, and causes harm to its global reputation, enabling counterfeit sales that erode profits, brand value, and legal credibility.

In the effort to reform its IP Enforcement & Protection and avoiding the consequences of neglecting it, the Indonesian government have assigned the Directorate General of Intellectual Property (DJKI) to lead the effort of the Indonesian IP Enforcement & Protection reformation. To fulfill its duty, DJKI is currently preparing the Indonesian Roadmap that has the strategy to reform the Indonesian IP enforcement & protection. The strategy consists of 4 pillars, which are Enhancement, Assessment, Prioritization, and Information Dissemination. Enhancement is the improvement of simplicity, availability, and education of IP enforcement & protection; Assessment is to research and analyze the Indonesian IP regulation & enforcement in order to understand its issues; Prioritization is the increase of efforts for specific institutes or issues, for examples the existence of piracy in Indonesia; Dissemination of information is the effort to maintain both transparency and accountability and therefore causes public awareness and the appropriate government responses. 

The roadmap has three phases, which is phase one (2025-2026), focused on consolidating and improving Indonesia’s IP regulation; phase two (2027-2029), focused on the different regions and institutions to solve issues that may require special governmental attention to achieves effective solutions; phase three (2030-2035), to make Indonesia become a reliable hub where everybody both domestic and international business actors can effectively utilize their IP.

There shall be 3 standards to measure the effectiveness, which are the increase of IP Registration; the increase of IP products circulation and its related profitability; the integration of micro, small, and medium-sized companies (UMKM) and educational institutions into Indonesia’s IP regulations. Therefore, Indonesia shall be able to achieves its targets of being in a far better position in relation to IP protection and enforcement (JPK/BDP/MGK).