Indonesia Prepares a Zero Fee for Requests to Block Infringing Websites

By Ozan Attas

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Rights holders who want an infringing website cut off in Indonesia currently pay a small government fee for each site they report. That fee is about to disappear. On 26 October 2026 the Directorate General of Intellectual Property (DJKI) announced that the Ministry of Law is preparing a zero rupiah tariff for its service of recommending the closure of websites that infringe intellectual property.

According to DJKI, the Minister of Finance has already given approval in principle through letter S-360/MK/AG/2026, dated 21 October 2026. The ministry now needs to issue an implementing regulation (a Permenkum), which DJKI said it was aiming to complete the following week. Until that regulation is in force, the old tariff still applies.

What the service does

The blocking route is older than many users realise. DJKI traces it to a 2015 joint regulation between the law ministry and the communications ministry. A right holder, or its representative, files a report. A verification team at DJKI checks whether the site really carries infringing content. If it does, DJKI sends a recommendation, and the actual blocking of access is carried out by the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs (Komdigi).

The current legal basis is Minister of Law Regulation No. 47 of 2025, which DJKI says covers every IP regime, so the route is open for trademarks, patents and designs as well as copyright. Reports go through DJKI's complaints portal at pengaduan.dgip.go.id.

The current price and what changes

DJKI's published fee page lists the charges under Government Regulation No. 30 of 2026 on non-tax state revenue. A request to recommend the closure of one infringing site costs Rp100,000, and an expedited request costs Rp200,000 per site. These amounts are modest for a large studio or a global brand, but they add up for an enforcement programme that targets dozens or hundreds of mirror domains, and they can deter smaller Indonesian creators from using the route at all.

Once the new regulation takes effect, the service fee will be set at zero. The Finance Ministry approval matters here because tariffs for government services are fixed by regulation as non-tax revenue, so a ministry cannot waive them on its own initiative. A separate zero tariff for copyright recordal has also been reported; we cover that change in its own post.

Who uses the route today

The statistics DJKI released are the most useful part of the announcement. From 2021 to 30 September 2026, DJKI recommended 2,966 websites for blocking. In the first nine months of 2026 it received requests concerning 462 sites and recommended 365 of them, which suggests that roughly one request in five does not survive verification.

The figures also show who the main users are. In 2025, 946 of 1,119 requests (about 84.5 percent) came from foreign right holders. Between January and September 2026 the foreign share was 351 of 462, or about 76 percent. Put simply, the system has so far worked mainly for international content owners and brand owners, and the zero tariff seems designed in part to bring more Indonesian creators, publishers and small businesses into it.

Practical points for right holders

For foreign owners the change is mostly a cost saving, but it may also change the volume of reports DJKI has to handle. If the number of requests rises sharply, the verification team becomes the bottleneck. Right holders should therefore keep their evidence packages tight: proof of ownership (a registration certificate, a copyright recordal or chain of title), dated screenshots showing the infringing content or listings, the full list of URLs and domains, and where possible evidence that the site targets Indonesian users. A clean file is more likely to be verified quickly than a long list of loosely documented domains.

For Indonesian creators the barrier is lower, but the legal threshold stays where it was. Blocking is an administrative measure aimed at access, not a ruling on liability, and DJKI still has to be satisfied that the content infringes. Creators who have recorded their works with DJKI will find it easier to prove ownership.

There are also limits that a free service will not fix. Blocked sites often reappear under new domains within days, and blocking does not identify the operators or recover any losses. Many enforcement teams pair blocking requests with platform takedowns, payment and advertising disruption, and, where the facts justify it, a civil claim or a criminal complaint under the Copyright Law (Law No. 28 of 2014) or the Trademark Law. Blocking works best as one tool among several.

What to watch

The key document is the Permenkum itself. It should confirm the start date, whether the expedited service is also free, and whether any other DJKI tariffs change at the same time. Until it is published, filers should assume the PP 30/2026 rates still apply, and anyone planning a large batch of reports may want to wait until the new tariff is formally in place.

Sources

• DJKI (Directorate General of Intellectual Property), "Kemenkum Siapkan Tarif Rp0 untuk Pemberantasan Situs Pelanggar KI", 26 October 2026
• DJKI, schedule of fees for IP investigation services (PP 30/2026)
• ANTARA Babel, "Kemenkum siapkan tarif Rp0 untuk pemberantasan situs pelanggar KI"
• iNews, "Kabar Baik, Kemenkum Gratiskan Biaya Pemblokiran Situs Karya Bajakan"