Jakarta. President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo on Wednesday set a target for the presidential regulation on publishers’ rights to be rolled out in a month.
Once issued, the regulation will become a blessing for news outlets, as they will earn royalties if online platforms such as Google or Facebook publish their content. Jokowi revealed that Communications Minister Johnny G Plate had recently applied for an initiative to issue a draft of the regulation to bridge the interests between digital platforms and media companies for quality journalism.
“I suggest the stakeholders discuss this matter in this one month, the draft must be finalized. I will take part in some of that discussion,” Jokowi said at the 2023 National Press Day event in the North Sumatra capital of Medan on Thursday.
Media companies are losing their revenue to online aggregators. According to Jokowi,…
