The EuroCham IPR Working Group and the ASEAN IPR HelpDesk hosted a seminar today on enforcement of intellectual property rights in Indonesia’.
Special guests at the seminar included:
- Tosin Junansyah (Director Investigation at PPNS - the enforcement division of the Directorate General of Intellectual Property);
- Agung Krisdiyanto (Head of Division of Intelligence III, Customs);
- Wawrzyniec Perschke (European Commission); and
- Simon Cheetham (Team Leader of ASEAN and China IPR SME Helpdesks).
Agung Krisdiyanto’s presentation was particularly encouraging. Having recently participated in an international training program in Shanghai, Pak Agung is full of ideas for Indonesian Customs. These include the introduction of a recordal system, and seizure of incoming shipments of counterfeit product. With mention of cooperation with the UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) and international customs agencies, these are real and workable plans - let’s hope that Customs is able to follow through and implement.
Toshin Junansyah announced that the PPNS is planning to destroy 56 tons of optical discs (more than 1 million discs) seized in raids in Jakarta in February 2013. The destruction is planned to coincide with World IP Day (26 April 2014). Arranging destruction is no easy task, especially with this kind of quantity. Stringent crowd control measures will be necessary to prevent pilfering - it will be interesting to see what measures the PPNS puts in place to manage the situation.