'Not-so-Jolly' Roger
A computer store has been ordered to pay damages of Rp42.6 billion to Microsoft. But a verdict in four similar cases has not yet been handed down, so that the interests of the consumer may be taken into account by the judges in arriving at a decision.
October 2, 2001
An historic corner has been turned in the enforcement of copyright law. For the first time in Indonesia, a computer software pirate has been found guilty and sanctioned. The West Jakarta District Court on Monday of last week ordered computer company PT Kusumomegah Jayasakti to pay damages of US$4.438 million, or Rp42.6 billion at an exchange rate of Rp9,600 per US dollar, to the giant American software company Microsoft. The defendant, the ow...