Musician Struggle To Seek Royalty Acceptance Justice

Member of FESMI (Instagram @fesmi.id)

JAKARTA - The Federation of Indonesian Musician Unions (FESMI) agreed to support the struggle of Indonesian songwriters in fighting for their rights.

Through an official social media account, the organization led by Yovie Widianto expressed his attitude and views in an upload entitled We Agree with the Struggle of Friends.

"We agree with fellow musicians and songwriters who are fighting for injustice in the distribution of royalty admissions," wrote FESMI in a statement uploaded to Instagram, Wednesday, February 7.

However, this struggle actually creates a feud in the side of the music actors themselves. Mutual prohibition between creators and singers for the context of performing rights raises many questions and confusion in society. The main problem is biased," he continued.

Then, FESMI mentioned several problems related to the collection and distribution of royalties that the public should know. Such as delays in payments by users or song users, distribution of royalties whose mechanism still invites questions, as well as roles that have not been maximized from LMKN and LMK in collecting and distributing royalties.

The three points mentioned above are said to create injustice for songwriters, so it is not surprising that they speak out loud.

"For that, we encourage LMKN to play a role properly as mandated by law with a collective royalty collection system through LMKN and distributed by LMK. We believe LMKN will be able to carry out its role well," concluded FESMI.