IP strategy for Indonesia must address the online space, where counterfeiting activity is growing exponentially.
Indonesian website indowebster.com published a series of take-down notices on its forum in February 2014, under the thread "Attention to do not upload (We got warning !)”. The notices appear to have been sent to indowebster.com by rights holders including Adobe, NBC Universal, Lynda.com, Microsoft Corporation, Open Road Films, RML Distribution, HBO, Sony Pictures, Columbia Pictures, CBS Corporation, and Hachette UK. That the notices were published is a positive sign, as it shows that the website has actioned the complaints.
With internet access becoming available to a wider section of the public (according to a Financial Times article, there will be 125 million Indonesian users by 2017) and online retail sales projected to increase to USD10billion by 2015 (also according to the Financial Times article) the online space should not be ignored. Various enforcement tools are available. Most established retail sites have take-down policies, and the economic crimes police have a cybercrime unit with which criminal complaints can be filed.
We discussed take-downs from retail sites www.tokobagus.com and www.kaskus.co.id in our post here.