Anabelle Colaco
13 Nov 2026, 09:45 GMT+10
JAKARTA, Indonesia: Indonesia could become the first country in Southeast Asia to incorporate AI into its copyright law, but digital platforms Meta and TikTok joined Google on November 11 to push back against the proposed revisions, which would also require digital platforms to pay publishers for displaying news content.
The bill comes as governments globally grapple with the impact of the technology on copyright rules, including the use of human-created work to train AI models.
Agung Pamungkas, Google's Indonesia government affairs and public policy manager, told a parliamentary hearing that requiring tech platforms to pay compensation for showing links to publishers' news content would limit Indonesians' access to news.
Berni Moestafa, Meta's public policy head in Indonesia, said requiring platforms to pay compensation meant news "publishers could lose readership traffic as well as potential advertising and subscription revenue." Directing readers to an article is different from reproducing or republishing the article itself, he added.
Separately, Noudhy Valdryno, TikTok's head of public policy in Indonesia, told lawmakers that disclosure requirements should not apply where AI is used only in an assistive capacity rather than to fully create content.
Noudhy also urged lawmakers to preserve safe-harbor protections, saying platforms cannot reliably determine copyright ownership or licenses.
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