Indonesia has the worst when it comes to protecting intellectual property rights in Asia and Singapore is the best, a survey of foreign businessmen showed Wednesday.
"Indonesia seems to have lost its momentum for cracking down on IPR abuse and making the system compliant with international standards," Hong Kong-based political and economic risk consultancy said.
Indonesia "has new laws governing the protection of intellectual property must be improved, but those rules are not effectively applied to all, and piracy levels in Indonesia remain among the highest in the world."
Indonesia got the worst score of 8.5 from maximum of 10 points compared to 11 other Asian economies in the PERC survey of expatriate managers in 1285 between June and August. Zero is the best possible score.
More advanced economies fared better, with Singapore as head of the list with 1.5, followed by Japan (2.1), Hong Kong (2.8), Taiwan (3.8) and South Korea (4.1).
On the other side of the scale, the second was the worst at 8.4 Vietnam, China scored 7.9, the Philippines 6.84, 6.5 India, Thailand and Malaysia 6.17 5.8.
The rankings reflect large study by the global software industry, by the easy availability of illegal movies and software in the Asian cities concerned governments despite pledges to crack down.
"Among the emerging Asian countries, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines are all rated poorly, not only for their low level of IPR protection but also for criteria such as physical infrastructure, bureaucratic inefficiency and labor constraints," said PERC.
China came under strong surveillance because of the enormous size of its economy and the presence of big companies ", for the use of pirated technology to compete in foreign markets," said PERC.
Indonesia "has new laws governing the protection of intellectual property must be improved, but those rules are not effectively applied to all, and piracy levels in Indonesia remain among the highest in the world."
Indonesia got the worst score of 8.5 from maximum of 10 points compared to 11 other Asian economies in the PERC survey of expatriate managers in 1285 between June and August. Zero is the best possible score.
More advanced economies fared better, with Singapore as head of the list with 1.5, followed by Japan (2.1), Hong Kong (2.8), Taiwan (3.8) and South Korea (4.1).
On the other side of the scale, the second was the worst at 8.4 Vietnam, China scored 7.9, the Philippines 6.84, 6.5 India, Thailand and Malaysia 6.17 5.8.
The rankings reflect large study by the global software industry, by the easy availability of illegal movies and software in the Asian cities concerned governments despite pledges to crack down.
"Among the emerging Asian countries, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines are all rated poorly, not only for their low level of IPR protection but also for criteria such as physical infrastructure, bureaucratic inefficiency and labor constraints," said PERC.
China came under strong surveillance because of the enormous size of its economy and the presence of big companies ", for the use of pirated technology to compete in foreign markets," said PERC.
