Protection of Indigenous Peoples the Owner of Traditional Cultural Expressions in Indonesia
Indonesia has 33 provinces with different ethnics and cultures that the presence is highly valuable. Therefore, Indonesia is known as the rich country with great diversity of art legacies and traditional culture expressions. This diversity is possibly prominent due to various ethnics living in Indonesia with their high level of creativity to invent the art and traditional cultural expression. As a multicultural ethnicity, Indonesia is a set of different types of people from various characters and original culture. Indonesia has a lot of artistic and cultural expression that comes from indigenous peoples which is inherited and can be used by anyone and at any time (the common heritage of mankind). As a national asset that has existed for hundreds of years ago, needs to be addressed more seriously in providing protection to traditional cultural expressions (EBT), which can be useful for the welfare of the nation because it has a high economic value. but ownership of traditional cultural expressions that vary have been used by foreigners, especially the developed countries without distribution of profits to Indonesia. at this point the protection of traditional cultural expressions in Indonesia simply by copyright (copyright) which in practice is very difficult and needs to urgently regulate specific legal rights (sui generis) regulating the use of traditional cultural expressions for the sake of national interests and the interests of indigenous peoples as the owner of expression traditional culture.
