Indonesia is drafting a rewrite of its copyright law that would make it the first Southeast Asian country to explicitly address artificial intelligence in statute. The bill would ban AI from imitating a creator's "distinctive style", require disclosure of AI-generated content, and subject the use of copyrighted works for AI training to fair-use limits or licensing agreements. Google has become the plan's most vocal critic, warning it could stifle Indonesia's digital economy, while the government says it is needed to protect human creators from being displaced by unregulated generative AI.

The draft, reviewed by Reuters, would replace Indonesia's 2014 copyright law and cover sectors from video games to journalism, with non-compliant platforms risking revocation of their local business permits. AI-assisted works would only gain copyright protection if they pass an undefined "human-involvement" test, and platforms would have to compensate rightsholders, via state-supervised bodies, for uses including news aggregation and AI training. For the music industry, the style-mimicry ban touches on the contentious issue of AI voice cloning, following tools like Suno's voice-capture feature and licensing deals struck by rival Udio with major labels after facing an RIAA lawsuit; the copyright overhaul is also being paired with a wider piracy crackdown in Indonesia.