Key facts
- Google's Agung Pamungkas told lawmakers that paying for news links would limit Indonesians' access to news.
- Meta's Berni Moestafa said the payment rule meant publishers could lose readership traffic and advertising and subscription revenue.
- Berni said directing readers to an article differs from reproducing or republishing the article itself.
- TikTok's Noudhy Valdryno said disclosure requirements should not apply where AI is used only in an assistive capacity.
- Noudhy urged lawmakers to preserve safe-harbour protections, saying platforms cannot reliably determine copyright ownership or licences.
- Reuters reported the planned revisions exclusively in July, citing a draft of the bill.
Meta, TikTok and Google told an Indonesian parliamentary hearing on November 11 that proposed revisions to the country's copyright law would restrict access to news and impose unworkable obligations on platforms.
Google's Indonesia government affairs and public policy manager, Agung Pamungkas, said requiring tech platforms to pay compensation for showing links to news content from publishers would limit Indonesians' access to news.
Meta's public policy head in Indonesia, Berni Moestafa, said the payment requirement meant news "publishers could lose readership traffic as well as potential advertising and subscription revenue". Berni added that directing readers to an article is different from reproducing or republishing the article itself.
TikTok's head of public policy in Indonesia, Noudhy Valdryno, told lawmakers that disclosure requirements should not apply where AI is used only in an assistive capacity rather than to fully create content. Noudhy urged lawmakers to preserve safe-harbour protections, saying platforms cannot reliably determine copyright ownership or licences.
Reuters exclusively reported the planned revisions in July, citing a draft of the bill. If passed, Indonesia could become the first country in Southeast Asia to incorporate AI in its copyright law, as governments weigh how work created by humans is used to train AI models.