Thomas Ramdhan's Confession Only Gets IDR 70 Thousand Royalties For Three Months

Thomas Ramdhan, bassist Gigi (Instagram @kabarnurseptian)

JAKARTA - Gigi personnel expressed their opinion on handling music royalties, especially the performance rights that are running in Indonesia.

Armand Maulana (vocals) said that various royalty issues in Indonesia are still far from perfect, aka not handled properly.

In his confession, Thomas Ramdhan (bass) even revealed that the number of royalties for performing rights he got was still very small.

"Three months, I got 75 thousand," said Thomas Ramdhan, quoting The Soleh Solihun Solihun Interview, Tuesday, May 21.

"So, it's still far in my opinion," continued Samod, his nickname.

According to Gigi personnel, their income from performing rights royalties in each payment period ranges from Rp. 70 thousand to Rp. 120 thousand.

The main problem that according to Samod needs to be considered is transparency about royalties. Instead of having a small nominal problem, the bassist highlighted more about the cuts made to his economic rights.

"It doesn't matter because it doesn't sell or anything, that's not it. I think there are too many doors. The point is cut," said Samod.

Actually, it's worse, we don't know what the calculation is. Why did we get that? Gusti Hendy (drum), who was approved by other personnel.

Dewa Budjana (guitar) also commented. According to him, the problem becomes more complicated because the party assigned to collect royalties also does not know the details of the funds raised.

"Every time we perform, there should be royalties. Now that's back to us. We have a lot of gigs, after collecting the three months, Thomas 70 thousand. Rada is confused too," concluded Armand Maulana.