Indonesia is drafting a major overhaul of its copyright law to regulate artificial intelligence. The bill requires digital platforms like Google to pay news organizations for content. Parliament is currently deliberating the draft legislation.
The law protects works created with human assistance using AI. Content generated entirely by AI will receive no copyright protection. Indonesia would become the first Southeast Asian country to include AI in copyright law.
The publisher rights provisions mandate compensation for content aggregation and AI model training. A state-supervised collective body will manage and distribute these payments. This follows a presidential regulation signed in February 2024. That specific regulation takes effect in August 2024.
The Ministry of Law and Human Rights confirmed the draft bill is legitimate. Google warned that rigid mandates would slow innovation and leave Indonesia as an international outlier. Legislators expect to deliberate the bill through the second half of 2026.