Licensing & Rights Management

Here is the breakdown. We manage licensing and rights for shoots in Indonesia, covering the clearances and agreements that protect a project commercially and legally. Our team handles music licensing. This includes the use of traditional forms such as gamelan, archival and stock footage clearance, talent usage and buyout terms, and location-related image rights, preparing bilingual records in English and Bahasa Indonesia where local parties are involved.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. We structure distribution and exploitation rights for shoots intended for cinema, broadcast and streaming, and we set up with rights holders, collecting bodies and counsel so usage is cleanly defined by area, term and platform. For visiting producers we explain how Indonesian practice fits alongside their home-market obligations. We apply correct treatment of VAT, known locally as PPN at 11 percent, on licensing transactions. The result is a rights position that is logged, enforceable and ready for delivery rather than a set of loose ends found in post.

Here is how the picture comes together. Rights and licensing have grown sharply in importance as Indonesia's screen market has expanded. The country has a large, fast-growing domestic film industry, one of Asia's biggest by cinema admissions, and Netflix and other streamers have invested heavily in Indonesian content. This has raised the stakes around clear ownership, usage and platform rights. Indonesian cinema's global visibility, from Gareth Evans's 'The Raid' to Joko Anwar's horror and Joshua Oppenheimer's documentary 'The Act of Killing', means projects increasingly travel across areas where rights must be unambiguous.

Here is what we have to work with. The country's deep cultural heritage adds its own dimension: traditional music, batik motifs, wayang puppetry and regional craft carry community and cultural weight, so respectful, well negotiated use matters beyond pure legal compliance. We bring a knowing of both the formal framework and that cultural context. A production's rights are secure and its use of Indonesian creative heritage is handled with care.