Promotor Reveals Reasons For Many Concerts Not Paying Royalties

JAKARTA - The chairman of the Indonesian Music Promoter Association (APMI), Dino Hamid, revealed several problems that made many music promoters not pay royalties for performing rights to the National Collective Management Institute (LMKN).

What Dino Hamid stated was conveyed when he was a resource person in a discussion at the 2025 Indonesian Music Conference (KMI) which took place at The Sultan Hotel & Residence, Central Jakarta, Thursday, October 9.

Dino started his explanation by inviting the discussion participants to distinguish music promoters from event organizers (EO).

Meanwhile, music promoters are the type of business that funds a music concert. Meanwhile, EO is the party paid to carry out a musical performance.

"Because the promoter with EO looks technically the same, but the core is really different," said Dino.

"When we talk about the promoter, we are business owners (business owners). What we are doing is investment. It's like we are payers, we pay anything," he continued.

Dino said that the first problem that prevented many promoters from paying royalties was the lack of socialization. In this case, he actually said that the chaos regarding royalties actually had a positive impact, where everyone was aware of the existence of the economic rights of songwriters.

"Socialization, in our opinion, has not been well socialized, comprehensive, and massive. Taxes are already that massive, there are still many who have not paid taxes," said Dino.

"Alhamdulillah, this is a problem. So, anything happens for good reason. If nothing happens at this time, no one understands," he continued.

In addition, Dino also saw the lack of education about royalties. This is exacerbated by a system that feels not good enough.

"Second, education issues as well. Education is not informed, if there is a right there, and who receives the right, what is the medium. There is no education," he said. So, socialization does not exist, education does not exist, and is exacerbated by no comprehensive, auditable, and open system.

The last point that Dino called was licensing issues. According to him, Indonesia can imitate other countries that include royalties in the licensing system.

"We also ask, I have also been recruited several times to have an IP in Amsterdam, continue in Malaysia, in Singapore. The permit is very compact, including performing rights. Permits don't come out if the performance rights are not fixed," he concluded.