Indonesian Civil Servants Get Piracy Training, Thanks to Dubious Study

To support the anti-piracy program in Indonesia, the Indonesian government and Business Software Alliance (BSA) conducted ‘software piracy training’ for government officials.

The BSA previously published a survey that claimed Indonesia to be among one of the worst offending nations for software piracy in the world, ranking 11th on the list. There is a lot of criticism about this annual survey, as the BSA equates each illegal software download to a lost sale, and that is a very shaky assumption to base a study of this scale upon.

But valid or not, the results don’t appear to be sitting well with the Indonesian government. It is aiming overcome the ‘pirate nation’ label in various ways, one of which is by conducting software piracy training with BSA. Donny Sheyoputra of the BSA agrees that by reducing the level of software piracy in this country, the investment opportunities of legal software companies will be more open and safe, aiding in Indonesia’s economic growth.

The government has tried to guide Indonesians who are already tech savvy to be more ‘introspective’ about their software use. Another strategy to reduce the level of software piracy is to promote the use of open source software, and that’s something that Indonesia is getting behind as well.

[Source: Chip.co.id]