Legal Protection of Traditional Cultural Expression as a Copyright in Indonesia

Abstract

—Indonesia that has a huge of natural resources and human resources with all its creativity has created various kinds of intellectual creation in the field of arts, literature, and knowledge. That creations of the ancestral can be called by Traditional Cultural Expressions that must be protected by the law. It is not only because it has sacred values that still exist in the custom society in Indonesia, but also has a high rate of economic values. Traditional Cultural Expressions as copyrights need to get the protection of the law to avoid confession by another country, for example, Pendet Dance, Wayang, and Reog Ponorogo that claimed as traditional property of Malaysia. The form of law protection of Traditional Cultural Expressions as copyrights has already grown. In the Law No.19 of 2002 on Copyrights, Traditional Cultural Expressions have only meaning as folklore. And then, throughout Law No.28 of 2014 on Copyrights, Traditional Cultural Expressions has a wide meaning. It means one or combination expression form of verbal textual, music, dance, theater, fine arts, and custom ceremony.