Geographical Indications under International Intellectual Property Law: An Indonesian Perspective

Abstract

There are currently two systems for the regim-otter of GI and Appellations of Origin. First, the Lisbon Agreement for the Protection afAppellations of Origñi and their Intel Regir •ation of 19S& 8etond, the Madrid Agreement Concerning the ñiternationalRegistrationof Marks and the Madrid Protocol of 1959 for countries that protect GI under the trade mark regime. Znzkmrna has provided for GI pmtection ietdrr its Trade Mark Zzrrv No. 15 of200.*, and the pppertnining Government Regulation No. 51 of 2007 concerning Geographical Indication. Several cases haye been reported af lzrdonesian GI potetifief products, such as kept Toraja and Kapi Gayo. being registered overseas as trade mark by foreign compr Consequently. local farmers are prevaued from export- ing their traditional products inst g ih•.ir ow local In the conta of in- ternational economic law. this paper is aimed at dressing three related issues, rely, wine are the remedies available to Indonesia under international far' to protect its G] products from misappropriation; second, in what extent c‹zri these legal remedies be expemed to be ef eeti:ue in resotviyg the issue; and thirst, to whay ment wou& sighting the Lisbon ‹zn& or Madrid Agreement benefit Indonesia in the form o/greyer internmioiuzl protection of its GI prodwcM?