IDLO Intellectual Property Impact Programme in Indonesia

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About the Indonesian Alumni Association of IDLO

The Indonesian Alumni Association of IDLO ("IAA-IDLO"), whose members received institution-building technical support, training for trainers and other forms of documentary and mentoring support as well as financial assistance from IDLO to help them develop the alumni association into a self-sustaining organization that can provide continuing legal education, research and publication at the country level, was founded in 2002.

Under the auspices of this alumni association, the IDLO Intellectual Property Resource Person for Indonesia regularly conducts training programs on intellectual property for lawyers, judges, and civil society organizations and often collaborate with IDLO in organizing the activities. By contributing legal resources, advice and assistance to other NGOs and the local legal community, these institutions are helping to build an enabling legal environment for investment, trade and citizen participation.

About IDLO Intellectual Property Impact Programme in Indonesia

In November 2004, a training workshop on intellectual property law was organized in Jakarta by IDLO in collaboration with IAA-IDLO. The training workshop, of which topic was "Intellectual Property Law in Practice: How to Protect and Enforce IP Rights", constitutes the first phase of the IDLO Intellectual Property Impact Programme in Indonesia. There were about 30 (thirty) participants attending the training workshop. One of the participants, Broerie Wahjudi, was selected and recruited to become the IDLO Intellectual Property Resource Person for Indonesia. In 2005, a tripartite agreement was signed by IDLO, IAA-IDLO and the IDLO Intellectual Property Resource Person for Indonesia, hence the mandate borne by the IDLO Intellectual Property Resource Person for Indonesia is of ad personam nature.

Under the tripartite agreement, the duties, obligations and responsibilties of the IDLO Intellectual Property Resource Person for Indonesia are as follows:

• organising six (6) training workshops on intellectual property locally under the auspices of IAA-IDLO;
  
• writing three (3) articles on intellectual property law to be published in IDLO publications: Development Law Updates and Voices of Development Jurists; and
• prior to doing so, conducting a one-month research on intellectual property law from international perspectives and a one-month orientation at IDLO's headquarters in Rome, Italy.
  

Concurrent with his participation in the Development Lawyers Course (DLC-22E) organized by IDLO in Rome, Italy, from early April to June 2005, the IDLO Intellectual Property Resource Person for Indonesia conducted the one-month research and orientation under the close supervision of Mr. Giulio C. Zanetti, IDLO Head of Anglophone Department and Intellectual Property Specialist. This is the second phase of the IDLO Intellectual Property Impact Programme in Indonesia.

Having returned to Indonesia, the IDLO Intellectual Property Resource Person for Indonesia continued conducting his own independent researches on intellectual property law with close consultation with IDLO Head of Anglophone Department and Intellectual Property Specialist, prior to performing his duties, obligations and responsibilities.

In November 2006, to complement his duties as IDLO Intellectual Property Resource Person for Indonesia, he participated in the one-month Public International Trade Law Course and the World Trade Organization (PITLC-13E) organized by IDLO Asia-Pacific Regional Centre in Sydney, in which course modules on the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property were inserted. In this Course he also acted as Course Assistant for Mr. Miles Young, then IDLO Acting Director of the Asia-Pacific Regional Centre and Programme Legal Counsel.