Badung, Bali, Oct. 10 -- Indonesia's Law Ministry and Press Council are co-organizing the ASEAN Forum on the Protection of Journalistic Works in the Copyright Regime in the Digital Era to help strengthen safeguards for journalistic content across Southeast Asia.

Director General of Intellectual Property at the ministry Hermansyah Siregar said on Saturday the forum, taking place in Badung, Bali, from October 9 to 11, marks an important step in addressing emerging challenges facing the media industry.

"The rapid development of digital technology and artificial intelligence has created new challenges for journalistic copyright, particularly the unauthorized commercialization of content and the use of journalistic works as training data for...