STRATEGY FOR PROTECTING TRADITIONAL CULTURE EXPRESSION IN INDONESIA

Indonesia is popular with enrichment of cultural legacies and traditional culture expressions. The diversity of traditional culture expression in Indonesia is quite obvious with the presence of various tribes who characterize themselves with higher level of art creativities and traditional culture expressions. Indeed, traditional culture expression is the output of mind work, either in form of abstract or tangible, which can be transferred and captured by human senses. The claim against injustice is lifted by the developing countries because their traditional culture expressions, or their indigenous/traditional communities as the owner of these traditional culture expressions, are not protected and respected in due diligence in the case of misappropriation. Therefore, the question is “What strategy can be made by Indonesia nation for protecting traditional culture expression in Indonesia?”