LMKN Targets Foreign Musician Concert For Genjot Royalty Live Event

Yessi Kurniawan (second from the left) together with other LMKN Commissioners (Ivan Two Men/VOI)

JAKARTA - The National Collective Management Institute (LMKN) continues to strive to increase royalty collection. Especially for the live event or music concert sector, they will focus on international musicians' concerts held in Indonesia.

Yessy Kurniawan as the LMKN Commissioner said that his party was trying to collect live event royalties from the Coldplay concert in Jakarta on November 15, 2023.

According to him, there were songs written by the Indonesian songwriter at the concert, and the value was quite large, considering the results of ticket sales were very large.

"Currently LMKN is struggling at a very large concert yesterday, namely the Coldplay concert. There is a song from our nation's children that will open the event," said Yessy Kurniawan during a press conference at the LMKN Office, Kuningan, South Jakarta on Wednesday, January 17.

"That will get the same progress, if he will pay according to our calculations," he continued.

Yessy mentioned that there are many cases of international musicians' concerts in Indonesia involving domestic performers, so there are rights from songwriters whose work is performed there.

The focus on international musicians' concerts is also considered to be able to increase the value of royalties collection, because most of them are sold at ticket prices that are more expensive than domestic musicians' concerts.

"So, at foreign concerts we hope and we ask the EO to pay (royalti). Because it turns out that the opening bands are the bands of our nation's children. Do not let the large royalties that must be paid are not felt by the opening bands which turn out to use the works of our creators in Indonesia," concluded Yessy Kurniawan.