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he Law and Human Rights Ministry (Kemenkumham) has launched an application update for the national data center for communal intellectual property (PDN KIK), which protects Indonesian cultural values and is now to be stored in one center.
"The renewal of the KIK national data center will make it the only platform that presents valid data related to communal intellectual property information," said Deputy Law and Human Rights Minister Eddy Hiariej when inaugurating the launch of the revamped center at the Shangri-La Hotel Jakarta on Tuesday (23/11/2021).
Eddy said the updated data center could incorporate all communal intellectual property (KIK), which had been spread across several databases in related ministries/agencies. The data would include intangible cultural heritage that was previously under the Education, Culture, Research and Technology Ministry, alongside data related to biodiversity information facilities from the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) and natural drug information systems located at the Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM).
Acting Director General of Intellectual Property (Plt. DJKI) Razilu said the data integration was a breakthrough in collecting KIK data and information into one place, making it simpler for people to access everything on one website, which was not possible before.
"This makes it easier for people to find references related to historical values, culture, traditional knowledge, traditional cultural expressions and potential geographical indications," he explained.
Moreover, Razilu said the national data center would strengthen evidence of ownership of the country’s KIK and could be used to promote the nation’s culture on the international stage. He also noted that 1,651 KIK inventory entries had been recorded by the Directorate General of Intellectual Property at the Law and Human Rights Ministry.
"This is actually not optimal, considering the vast geography of Indonesia, which of course has a number of different cultural characteristics," Razilu said, expressing hope that more Indonesian KIK could be inventoried with the launch of the updated data center.
He added that the rules regarding the KIK data center would be outlined in more detail in a government regulation. While the draft of the regulation on the KIK data center has not been set or finished, he did state that it was “approximately 90 percent” complete.
The construction of this integrated KIK national data center is part the presidential mandate, as stated in Presidential Regulation No. 39/2019 on One Data Indonesia.
"One Data Indonesia is the government's data management policy to produce data that is accurate, up-to-date, integrated and accountable, as well as easily accessible and shared between central agencies and regional agencies," Razuli concluded.
