Meta and TikTok on Wednesday sided with Google in opposing Indonesia’s proposed copyright law changes, which would force digital platforms to compensate publishers for showing their news content and would introduce AI-specific rules.
Should the bill pass, Indonesia would become the first Southeast Asian nation to address AI in its copyright legislation.
It comes as governments around the world work out how copyright should apply to AI, including whether human-made works can be used to train AI models.
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Agung Pamungkas, Google’s government affairs and public policy manager in Indonesia, told a parliamentary hearing that forcing tech platforms to pay for displaying links to publishers’ news would reduce Indonesians’ access to news.
Berni Moestafa, Meta’s head of public policy in Indonesia, argued that mandatory compensation could hurt publishers through lost readership, advertising income, and subscription revenue.
He added that pointing readers to an article is not the same as copying or republishing it.
Separately, TikTok’s Indonesia public policy head, Noudhy Valdryno, told lawmakers that disclosure rules should not cover cases where AI only assists with content rather than fully generating it.
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Noudhy also pressed lawmakers to keep safe-harbor protections, arguing that platforms cannot reliably establish who owns copyright or holds licenses.
