Publisher Rights Guidelines Officially Launched, Digital Platforms Must Pay Attention To This!

JAKARTA - The Committee for Responsibility for Digital Platform Companies to Support Quality Journalism (KTP2JB) has launched Guidelines for Fulfilling the Obligation of Digital Platform Companies to Support Quality Journalism.

This guidelines was made to implement Presidential Regulation (Perpres) Number 32 of 2024 concerning the Responsibility of Digital Platform Companies to Support Quality Journalism or Publisher Rights which has been signed since February 20, 2024.

"Hopefully in the future, of course, we can work better together, not only on committees with the government or committees with platforms, but committees, government platforms, with the press community, so that the goal of Presidential Decree number 32 of 2024 can be realized," said Chairman of KTP2JB, Suprapto Sastro Atmojo at the launch of the Publisher Rights Guidelines on Monday, March 10 at the Ministry of Communications and Digital Affairs office, Jakarta.

This guide contains the form of cooperation between digital platform companies and press companies that need to prioritize the best principle of benefit for both parties, be it in the form of paid licenses, profit sharing, sharing news user aggregate data, or other forms agreed upon.

There are also guidelines related to dispute resolution outside of general justice in the form of arbitration or alternative dispute resolution by means of consultation, negotiation, mediation, reconciliation, or expert assessment.

Digital platform companies are also expected to be fair to all press companies, by providing the best efforts in designing news distribution algorithms that support the realization of quality journalism.

Thus, each press company has the same opportunity to obtain services for presentation and dissemination of content, without limiting by crawling and indexing of certain digital platforms.

Deputy Minister of Communication and Digital Affairs Nezar Patria hopes that this guideline can be an important milestone in encouraging good collaboration between digital platforms and press companies.

"Because this quality journalism is one of the important elements to make our media landscape manage with quality information, because we know there is a lot of misinformation, disinformation, there is a lot of hoaxes, there is a lot of chaos of information going on and the government is paying considerable attention so that quality journalism can continue to exist," he said.