Legal Protection of Traditional Culture in Indonesia

Abstract

Indonesia is one of these countries is the owner of traditional culture that represents the characteristic of 33 provinces and 1128 ethnics occupying Indonesia. That is why Indonesia has a great potential to extract economic benefit if this characteristic is exploited commercially. However, it is not happening in Indonesia because traditional culture has been used by the developed countries to support their economic. The emergence of injustice sense due to the arbitrary utilization of traditional culture is begun to be experienced by the developing countries. Protection and respect to the indigenous peoples as the owner of traditional culture are lacking. The utilization of traditional culture expression can be defined as the management of traditional culture as commercial asset without managing benefit-sharing with the developed countries. It is important hereby for the government to give protection to traditional culture.