Copyright Law, database protection
Law No. 28 of 2014, Articles 40 and 46, Copyright Law
A citation is an address, not a summary. The first part names the law; what follows narrows it to the exact section, article or paragraph.
In force since 16 October 2014.
A database right rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What it requires
- A database or compilation reproduced from an Indonesian source is protected as its own copyrighted work; reproducing the whole or a substantial part of a digital database is not covered by the personal-use copying exception that applies to other published works.
What this law does
Drafted with AI from the cited sources under the direction of UnGovr staff. UnGovr holds editorial responsibility for this page.
Article 40(1) lists a database (basis data) among protected works at letter (n), alongside a compilation of works or data in machine-readable or other format at letter (p), and paragraph (2) protects such a work as an original work in its own right without prejudice to the copyright in the underlying material it compiles.
Article 46(2)(c) then carves a database out of the personal-use copying exception that otherwise lets anyone make a single copy of a published work without permission, expressly excluding the whole or a substantial part of a digital database from that exception.
Protection therefore runs through ordinary copyright in a database's compilation or arrangement rather than through a sui generis right in the underlying data itself; the Act creates no database right independent of that compilation-copyright theory.
When LexLint raises it
crawls_webtrains_models
Read the law
Official English translation of Law No. 28 of 2014, WIPO Lex