The reported draft includes a ban on AI imitating a creator's distinctive style, mandatory disclosure of AI use in content, and compensation duties for AI platforms that collect, republish or train on news. It would grant copyright protection to AI-assisted works only where humans are sufficiently involved, and fully AI-generated works would receive none. The bill would also codify the 2024 presidential regulation that already pushed platforms toward publisher deals. The final wording has not been published, and the bill has not passed. Platform exemptions and safe-harbour terms remain open to change. A Ministry of Justice intellectual property official, Hermansyah Siregar, has said generative AI has disrupted the copyright framework and could suppress human creative activity.
If passed, Indonesia would be the first Southeast Asian country to write AI rules into its copyright law, which makes the outcome a likely reference point for neighboring legislatures weighing news payments and AI copyright. Attorneys advising platforms, publishers or AI developers should track the bill's text as it moves through committee, especially the definition of AI-assisted content, the disclosure trigger, and whether safe-harbour protections survive. Clients with news-licensing or training-data exposure in Indonesia should review their contracts and compliance posture now, since the codification of publisher deals would convert a regulatory push into a statutory obligation.