Abstract
As an archipelago country, Indonesia comprises of a large territory where every region is capable of producing distinctive and characterized products due to its geographical, social, and cultural factors, in addition to its higher quality compared to imported products. In the market, goods with distinct characterization as a result of various geographical locations of production regions is known as Geographical Indication Products. Geographical Indication defines as a characterization that indicates the origin of a product, which includes several influencing factors such as geographical factor, natural factor, human factor or the combination of both factors which eventually contribute to establish a certain distinction and quality upon a product. Several geographical indicated products in Indonesia are widely known to have excellent reputation on the market, namely Delinese tobacco, Temanggung tobacco, Ciancur rice, Muntok white pepper, Lampung black pepper, Kerinci cinnamon, Cilembu cassava, Bandanese nutmeg, Proboliggo sweet mango, Balinese Kintamani coffee, Kalosi coffee, Papuan matoa, etc. Those are several richness of goods from certain regions in Indonesia widely known for their characterization. Characterization of goods are resulted by variation of geographic locations of producing regions in Indonesia. These goods possess high quality and high economic value. Consequently, certain instruments are required to provide protection upon the regions producing those goods against the act of counterfeiting.
Highlights
Globalization and global trade has shattered regulation bulkheads which was perceived as a constraint in distributing these products from one country to another
Indonesia as an archipelago country has a wide territory, where every region is capable of producing distrinctive and characterized goods due to geographical, social and cultural factors with a better quality compared to imported goods
Several specific products to be known with good reputation in the market are namely Delinese tobacco, Kerinci cinnamon, Cilembu cassava, Bandanese nutmeg, Proboliggo sweet mango, Balinese Kintamani coffee, Kalosi coffee, Papuan matoa, etc
Summary
Globalization and global trade has shattered regulation bulkheads which was perceived as a constraint in distributing these products from one country to another. In Article 1 clause (I) of Government Regulation No 51 Year 2007 (PP No 51/2007) concerning Geographic Indication, states Geograghic Indication is a marker that emphasizes the origin of a product, which caused by geographical factor including natural factor, human factor or combination of those two factors result in providing certain characters and quality upon the resulted product. “...Geographical indication marks a product is originated from a territorial region of member states or from a certain region or local area within the territory of the country provide a quality, reputation and other specific characters of those goods and essentially attributes to its geographical origin. Clause (I) Geographical Indication is conserved as an attribute that indicates the originated region of goods, due to geographical factors which include natural factor, human factor or combination of both factors which provide certain characterization and quality upon the resulted goods. Legal protection of Geographical Indication goods will ensure the originality and quality of the indicated goods found in the market
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