Sleman-UPN "Veteran" Yogyakarta in collaboration with the Creative Economy Agency (Bekraf) held a socialization and facilitation of registration of free "Intellectual Property Rights" (HKI) for the creative economic actors in Yogyakarta. The event was attended by 125 creative economic actors, held at Grand Dafam Rohan, March 26, 2019. The purpose of this event was to facilitate the creative economy actors to register HKIs for their creative economy products.

The Chancellor of UPNVY, Dr. Irhas Effendi, said that hopefully Bekraf and UPNVY can continue to make a major contribution to the growth of the creative economy in Indonesia by having the synergy between the government, academics and creative actors.

"UPNVY continues to support the development of the creative economy so that it can compete and contribute to the welfare of the society. Besides being one of the manifestations of identity as a State defense campus, UPNVY strives to continue to fight for the prosperous people of Indonesia, one of its efforts is UPNVY along with Bekraffacilitate the registration of HKI for free, "he added.

The Deputy Governor of DIY KGPAA PAKUALAM X, in the opening ceremony of the event said that the creative industry has Intellectual Property Rights. The creative economic which grows rapidly is one of the drivers of the national economy. The National Creative Agency predicts the development of the creative economy will reach 6.2%, this economic growth can absorb employment of up to 16.77 million people.

"The awareness of Indonesia's creative economic actors to have HKI is still very low. Bekraf's data shows that the creative economic actors who have is only HKI 11%, the remaining 89% have not registered with HKI. Therefore, it is very important for creative economic actors to register HKI, "added the Deputy Governor of DIY.

The Deputy Governor added that the purpose of registering products to HKI is to improve the public awareness about the fraudulent practices, such as counterfeiting or plagiarizing the work of others. The second objective is to grow the creativity of creative industry players. HKI in the industrial center encourages the progress of a nation, HKI will stimulate researchers or business people to do new high quality things, besides that HKI will encourage investment, stimulate the competitiveness of the community to create high competitiveness and international standards. The challenge that the government faces now is how to socialize the importance of HKI for the creative industry players. The socialization must be encouraged to be able to award intellectual works in the fields of science, art, literature or technology.

On the same occasion, the Deputy of HKI Facilities and Regulations, Dr. Ari Julianto Gema, said that the Creative Economy Agency carried out a program of socialization and facilitation of HKI registration in order to provide the convenience to the creative economic actors to have HKI to protect their creativee economic products.

Ari added that based on the results of the survey of the Creative Economy Agency, there was only 11% of the creative business units which have registered for HKI. Therefore, we are trying to make programs that make it easier for the people to register HKIs, specifically for the economic actors. Thus, the products that have been registered forHKI will not be easily copied by other people without the permission of the business owner.

PR / dewi