Damar Iradat | CNN Indonesia

Tuesday October 24, 2023 08:46 IWST

Jakarta, CNN Indonesia —

Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (Kominfo) expresses the rules concerning Publisher’s rights or the publisher’s rights will be ratified by President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) at the end of this year. Currently, the draft regulation is in its final stages.

“It will be completed this year, according to our study, it has no economic impact,” said Director General of Information and Public Communication (IKP) Kominfo Usman Kansong in Jakarta, Monday (23/10).

Usman said his party would invite a number of media companies to discuss the project. The meeting is scheduled for Tuesday (10/24).

During the meeting, Kominfo and news agencies will discuss the draft regulation. According to him, the draft regulation that will be submitted is final.

“We will meet press friends tomorrow evening. We will discuss the developments. But there is just a little more left. We just want to convey to the press friends. If this is the final, that’s it,” explained Usman .

“And then we just ask for your opinion and mitigate the possibilities together,” he added.

The possibility in question is that social media platforms such as Google will disappear, as happened in Canada, as a result of this regulation. However, according to him, Google’s departure does not mean that the tech giant has completely left Indonesia.

“Because in other countries there are platforms that abandon the news. In Canada, for example, this is the case, we have to mitigate if this happens, we invite friends from the press to see the final version,” Usman said.

“Then we could ask our friends in the press to also anticipate or mitigate the responses of the platforms like in other countries, in Australia, in Canada, in the European Union, there will be a response, there There will be a reaction from them. Well, when it’s finished, it will be on schedule “will soon be signed”, he explained.

Usman said the government had also invited platforms to discuss this issue. According to Usman, the platforms have provided a number of inputs.

However, according to him, the government cannot respond to all these contributions.

“They made a lot of contributions, but they couldn’t accommodate everything. We included some, others we welcomed, but it was impossible to please everyone,” he explained.

On the other hand, the government is also preparing a number of precautions should the platforms decide to leave. One of them concerns the impact of their departure from the press community.

“We will look at the scale of the impact. For example, if there is a platform that attracts information, ‘Yes, I no longer want to receive news from publishers,’ for example, we will see how much information it absorbs. news like that, right? If it’s on this platform, the news content is just like that, right? I think we can tone it down,” he said. -he declares.

“But if the platform contains a lot of news, of course you have to think like that, right? Something like that, if it’s a big platform, all the news is there. Let’s say the search engines or the content of applicators, we need to review that, something like that,” he added. .

(team/dmi)