UTILIZATION OF GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATION PROTECTION SYSTEM FOR TRADITIONAL HANDICRAFTS IN INDONESIA

Ministerial Decree 12/2019 do not elaborate the rules or indicators in examining handicraft Geographical Indication (GI). To gain further information regarding this issue, we elaborate the GI laws in India and Thailand in this work. These two countries are selected for the comparative analysis because they have registered more handicraft GIs than Indonesia. Hence, this article attempts to analyse the implementation of the GI law and regulations in the traditional handicraft industry in Indonesia. We particularly focus on the natural and human factors that are assessed when stakeholders apply for GI registration for their traditional handicraft products. The article also analyses the books of requirements of five handicrafts with registered GIs in Indonesia.