Kominfo Ready To Sit Together Stakeholders Result In Eradicating Book Hijacking Solutions

Illustration of millennial generation and gen z reading books in a mobile library. (Antaranews)

Deputy Minister of Communication and Information (Wamenkominfo) Nezar Patria said the Ministry of Communication and Information (Kominfo) was open to discussions to support concrete solutions for book piracy in the country.

Nezar said that his party is ready to sit together with all stakeholders or stakeholders to hold open discussions in an effort to fight book piracy.

"We at the Ministry of Communication and Informatics are open to discussing this more deeply and in more detail by considering of course all stakeholders in the current level of our digital technology," said the Deputy Minister of Communication and Information during a discussion against book hijacking in Yogyakarta, in a press release, Tuesday, January 23, which was confiscated by Antara.

According to Nezar, book publishers and literatists or IKAPI can involve the Ministry of Law and Human Rights, Kominfo and law enforcement officials to fight book hijacking.

The stakeholders, he continued, could hold a meeting to discuss how to stop book hijackings to save the existence or business of publishing national books.

"This is very important, I think, because if you don't circle the pirates, it will continue to happen," said the Deputy Minister of Communication and Information.

In the midst of the rampant piracy and distribution of books online, the Deputy Minister of Communication and Information assessed the important meaning of firm action from upstream to downstream regarding what is permissible and what should not be done.

"Because of what? Because now connectivity is getting better, people's access to sources of knowledge is also increasingly open and also how people sell it in various ways," he said.

According to Nezar, the world of book publishing businesses is experiencing so many challenges. As a literacy observer who is also engaged in the book publishing community, he stated the most basic challenges related to the activities of less profitable business units.

"The publication of this book is the same as the issuance of media, in fact, most of it is an ideal mission, there is idealism to educate the nation, educate the public, divide science and the like. On the other hand, there is also a business side that can be developed," he said.

The discussion on Jogja Lawan Penjakikan Buku was attended by the Acting Head of the DIY Provincial Library and Archives Service Agus Priyono, the Director of Special Criminal Investigation at the Yogyakarta Regional Police, Kombes Idham Mahdi, and the Chairman of IKAPI DIY, Wawan Arif.