Triawan Munaf: Learn From South Korea To Fight Digital Piracy

It is undeniable that the presence of technology in the midst of society has a very broad impact, including the negative impact, one of which is piracy. In Indonesia, awareness and sensitivity to piracy of content such as images, music, and software is low. Many people assume that everything on the internet is something "free". Providing solutions to these problems, Triawan Munaf, Chairman of the Creative Economy Agency, put forward the idea to reduce the number of digital piracy, namely by providing an alert system for illegal content.

Trying to provide a solution to the problem of piracy, Triawan Munaf while attending the 2015 Indigo Apprentice Awards (IAA) gave an example of the Alert System that has been used in South Korea and France as a solution to reduce the number of piracy of digital works.

"In South Korea and France an Alert System was developed, I think it is appropriate to adopt it also in Indonesia if digital creatives can develop similar applications," he said.

He further explained, with the Alert System mechanism, network providers can detect illegal work downloading activities and then give a warning to the user. If the user still does not heed the warning, the network provider or operator can press speed download.

“The first warning stated that what was downloaded was an illegal file and was redirected to a legal file. If you still insist on downloading illegal files, the operator lowers speed Internet. In South Korea when this pattern was implemented, digital robberies were reduced by 50 percent,” said Triawan.

Triawan believes that such a method is more effective than closing sites that provide such content. As we all know some time ago The Indonesian Recording Industry Association (ASIRI) has asked the government, in this case the Minister of Communication and Information, to close sites that provide illegal music content.

Triawan Munaf's approach seems more reasonable. Closing the site will only trigger the emergence of similar sites, as the saying goes one falls and a thousand spring up. The approach by sensitizing and educating the public about acts of piracy can have more lasting effects. Because the key to piracy is not in the technology or the media but in the appreciation and public awareness of a copyrighted work.