With Indonesia’s Ministerial Regulation No. 6 of 2026 now fully in force, DJKI has used its online filing system this week to issue a practical warning: any excess claims fees for new patent applications must be paid in full at the time of filing. The message is procedural, but its effect is immediate. Claim counting, specification drafting and payment checks now need to be handled as one filing task, not as separate follow-up items.For applicants, the main risk is not simply a higher official fee. It is the loss of room to correct a fee gap after the application has entered the system....
Under Government Regulation No. 30 of 2026, Indonesia will reduce the copyright recordation fee for songs and musical works to Rp0 from 1 August 2026. During a dedicated outreach session for musicians, DJKI Director General Hermansyah Siregar presented the measure as part of a broader policy to simplify copyright procedures, widen creator participation and strengthen the national data framework for music rights. The immediate benefit is practical: composers, producers and rights managers with large catalogues will face fewer cost barriers when recording multiple works.Zero fees, however,...
Indonesia’s latest IP overhaul is no longer just a matter of digitising old procedures. As Ministry of Law Regulation No. 6 of 2026 on patent applications and Regulation No. 5 of 2026 on trademark registration move deeper into day-to-day practice, patents, trademarks, and online enforcement are starting to shift at the same time: patentable subject matter is broader, trademark filing is fully electronic, and online infringement is being pushed into a more operational blocking and access-restriction framework.The real story is not that one rule became stricter than another. It is that filing...
By 24 June 2026, practitioner commentary around Indonesia’s latest DGIP reforms had largely converged on three points. On the patent side, Regulation No. 6 of 2026 finally carries the amended Patent Law into day-to-day filing practice by expressly extending protectable subject matter to systems, methods, and uses. On the trade mark side, Regulation No. 5 of 2026 is widely being read as a serious speed reform, with key official outputs compressed to extremely short timelines and renewal handling now measured in working days rather than months.The bigger story is that these changes do not...
As of 3 July 2026, the real story in Indonesia is no longer simply that Regulation 5/2026 exists. The market can now see which provisions are likely to bite first in day-to-day filing practice. DGIP is moving toward a much tighter trademark timetable, while applicants are being pushed to prepare more carefully at the front end. Functional shapes now sit squarely in the absolute refusal analysis, sound marks require a recording plus notation or a sonogram, and foreign corporate papers are being pulled into a stricter Indonesian-language documentation track.
That combination changes filing...
Indonesia’s Directorate General of Intellectual Property (DGIP) moved to the fee and procedural framework under Government Regulation No. 30/2026 on 1 August 2026, alongside an updated electronic filing portal. The change affects official fees and selected examination timelines across patent and trademark procedures. New filings, renewals, recordals and other transactions submitted from the cutover date are charged under the revised schedule, with increases of close to 50% for some items.The transition guidance gives a narrow reprieve to billing codes generated on or before 31 July but not...
On 6 August 2026, Indonesia’s Directorate General of Intellectual Property (DGIP), following the 1 August fee increases and electronic-system update, issued supplementary internal reference criteria for trademark deletion cases before the Commercial Court. The guidance focuses on digital-only evidence in three-year non-use disputes. Foreign-language e-commerce screenshots, promotional material not localised for the Indonesian market, or records lacking genuine shipment, customs or tax documentation tied to Indonesian addresses may carry little or no weight as proof of local commercial...
As of 27 August 2026, Indonesia’s Government Regulation No. 30/2026 has been in force for nearly a month, and the first practical issues from the sharp official-fee increase are becoming clearer. During the August transition between the old and new electronic systems, a significant number of payment attempts timed out. The Directorate General of Intellectual Property (DGIP) has responded with a limited practical relief measure: billing codes that expired because of system-related problems may be retrieved once and used to complete payment. The measure is useful for applicants caught by the...
Businesses recording a transfer of a registered trademark in Indonesia need to check how the supporting evidence has been translated. Article 66 of Minister of Law Regulation No. 5 of 2026 requires an Indonesian translation by an official sworn translator when the transfer evidence is in a foreign language. The filing also calls for the trademark certificate or an official register extract, applicant identification and, where applicable, corporate documents for the transferee and a power of attorney. This is a reminder of an existing procedural requirement; it does not establish a recent...
Yasmon, Director of Cooperation, Empowerment and Education at Indonesia's Directorate General of Intellectual Property (DJKI) under the Ministry of Law, spoke for Indonesia and the Like-Minded Countries at the 53rd session of WIPO's Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC), held in Geneva in hybrid format from 16 to 25 September. According to the ministry's statement of 21 September, Indonesia is pushing to accelerate discussion of an effective and balanced international legal instrument to protect...
