DJKI Works With LMKN and Collecting Societies on Indonesia's Song and Music Data Centre

By Ozan Attas

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DJKI held a three-day workshop in Jakarta from 22 to 24 October 2026 on the Pusat Data Lagu dan/atau Musik (PDLM), Indonesia's national song and music database. According to DJKI, the national collective management body LMKN took part, together with the collecting societies WAMI, SELMI, KCI, CNS, PAPPRI, Prisindo, Prokarindo Utama and ARDI.

Agung Damarsasongko, DJKI's Director of Copyright and Industrial Design, said the aim is a stronger database, especially for related rights, with data that is complete, consistent and verifiable so that royalties can be distributed accurately.

According to DJKI's summary, speakers from WAMI and LMKN pointed to common data problems: duplicate works, conflicting ownership claims, inconsistent rights shares and missing identifiers. The participants discussed aligning PDLM with international identifiers used by CISAC and IFPI, namely ISWC for musical works, ISRC for recordings and IPI for rights holders, and linking systems through APIs.

For songwriters, publishers and labels with catalogues in Indonesia, the practical step is to make sure works and recordings are registered with correct ISWC, ISRC and ownership splits, since PDLM data is meant to underpin royalty collection and distribution under Government Regulation No. 56 of 2021.

Sources

• DJKI, "DJKI Gelar Workshop Pusat Data Lagu dan/atau Musik di Jakarta, Sinkronisasi dengan LMKN dan LMK" (22 October 2026, in Indonesian)