JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Software piracy in Indonesia is expected outstanding amount can be reduced by 10 percent within the next 4 years. This was submitted by Donna Sheyoputra, a spokesman for the Business Software Alliance (BSA), a nonprofit organization in the field of promotion of information technology world this afternoon at the launch campaign against software piracy in Central Jakarta (09/12/2010).
Currently, according to Donny, the rate of software piracy in Indonesia as of very high, reaching 86 percent. "In Indonesia software piracy this year rose 1 percent from a year ago. Of the 100 software is installed by the community, there are 86 software without a license, or called pirated," he explained.
Donna adds that with the reduction in software piracy rate in Indonesia, this country will actually have the potential to increase the amount of revenue per year. "If it can be reduced to 10 percent of the country has the potential to receive additional tax of about 124 million USD (U.S. dollars) per year," he said.
According to International Data Corporation, in addition to increasing tax revenues, a reduction in piracy would also potentially increase the number of employees reached 1884 workers. Not to mention the added income per capita per year is estimated to reach 2.4 billion U.S. dollars. Globally, Donny mentioned that the sovereign, when pressed piracy in 4 years to 10 percent of the world will increase per capita income to 142 billion U.S. dollars.
"It can also print 500 thousand labor force, tax revenues will increase to 32 billion USD," he said. Donna hopes that the emphasis of this software piracy rate could be done immediately because, she said, the faster the higher will be its economic impact. "We've worked with a number of Police in Indonesia to enforce the law on intellectual property rights," he said.
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