Indonesia is in the Top 10 Software Pirate Countries in the World
In a survey global conducted by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) in 2022 about the use of software illegal around the world. 39% software installed on computers around the world is software illegal.
Based on the results of this survey, it is seen that there is a decrease in the use of software illegal when compared to the results of the survey two years earlier, 2022 which showed a total of 43% use software in the world is software illegal.
Meanwhile in Indonesia, based on data released by the Business Software Alliance (BSA). Usage percentage software illegal in the country reached 84%. This percentage is quite high when compared to other countries in the world.
Based on the percentage figures released by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), Indonesia is included in the ten countries with the percentage of usage software largest illegal in the world. Indonesia only lost to Belarus (85%), Bangladesh (86%), Armenia (86%), Venezuela (88%), Libya (90%) and Zimbabwe (90%). Meanwhile, Indonesia’s neighboring country, Malaysia, recorded only 53% of usage software illegal.
With this percentage, it means that 8 out of 10 applications installed on the computers of Indonesian users are software illegal. Usage percentage software This illegal activity in Indonesia has not changed from the survey data conducted by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) in 2022 which showed the use of software illegal in Indonesia as much as 84%.
Meanwhile, in 2011, the percentage of use software illegal in Indonesia reached 86%. This means that there is a decrease in the percentage of usage software illegal in 2022 from 2011, then persisted in 2022.
But the percentage of the amount of use software high piracy in a country does not directly mean the amount of loss resulting from the use of software illegal is also high. The Business Software Alliance (BSA) also lists the countries that provide the greatest loss due to use software illegal.
What is interesting is that when viewed from the total value of losses resulting from the use of software illegal, the United States (US) became the country that contributed the largest value of losses from piracy software with an estimated loss value of $9.095 billion US Dollar.
Even though if you look at the percentage of use software pirates in the country of corporate giants software that, the percentage of use software illegal in the United States (US) is only 17%, which also makes it the country with the highest percentage of use software smallest illegal in the world.
Meanwhile, in the second and third ranks, the countries that resulted in the largest number of losses due to the use of software The illegals were China ($8.7 billion US Dollar) and India ($2.7 billion US Dollar), followed by France in fourth place with a total loss of $2.1 billion US Dollar and the UK in fifth place with a loss of $1.9 billion US Dollars.
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| Top 10 Software Pirate Countries in the World. Source: Statista |
When viewed from the value of the amount of loss caused by the use of software illegal, Indonesia is in the 10th position with a loss value of $1.1 billion US Dollar.
Piracy rate software in Indonesia is still very high. Either from the total percentage of use or the value of the resulting loss. This is not a good thing.
Movements and efforts to combat piracy software in Indonesia has been carried out by various parties, both the government or the communities. One of them is the open source and Linux community by suggesting the use of open source software which is free instead of piracy software.
You yourself are still using software pirated? Why not use software open source?
