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Police Brigadier General Anom Wibowo

Alumnus of Supervisory Criminal Investigator Course (October 6 - November 14, 2003) and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) (October 3 - 7, 2022)

Police Brigadier General Anom Wibowo
Head of Indonesia Intellectual Property (IP) Task Force
Alumnus of Supervisory Criminal Investigator Course (October 6 - November 14, 2003) and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) (October 3 - 7, 2022)

In January 2022, Police Brigadier General Anom Wibowo was appointed as the Director of Investigations and Dispute Settlement of Intellectual Property in the Directorate General of Intellectual Property (DGIP) at the Ministry of Law and Human Rights of the Republic of Indonesia.

Pol. Brig. Gen. Wibowo, utilized the training acquired through the ILEA training to develop and implement new policies within the DGIP, thus empowering his staff to investigate and provide services to the public on intellectual property investigations.  Historically, Indonesia has more cases of intellectual property being investigated by other Indonesian police departments, other than the DGIP, when it is not their mandate, as the responsibility for general and specialty crimes belong to the DGIP.

Additionally, Pol. Brig. Gen. Wibowo, used his ILEA training to establish task forces, when he served in the Bali Regional Police, as Head of the Counter Transnational and Organized Crime (CTOC) Task Force and as the Deputy Head of the Papua Task Force.  In these positions, he established several law enforcement task forces and developed a Cooperation Agreement between five institutions (the DGIP, Criminal Investigation Department of the Indonesian National Police, the Ministry of Communication and Informatics, the National Agency of Drug and Food Control (BPOM), and Directorate General of Customs and Excise Ministry of Finance to investigate Intellectual Property (IP)). 

The agreement had strong legal standing, was valid for five years, and made Indonesia a Priority Watch List (PWL) status of Special 301 reported by the United States Trade Representative (USTR).  Also, it protected Indonesia from counterfeited and pirated goods as the welfare of human are in line with intellectual property protection, making the agreement invaluable. As a result of the newly established IP Task Force, there were no more conflict of interest issues between departments, and as the IP reports received from the public were properly reviewed and distributed by the IP Task Force Command Center, who distributed the cases to the DGIP for investigation.

Today, the effectiveness of the IP Task Force is continuingly improving as its members often discuss and provide innovative services to the public. For example, THE IP Task Force have fined several Indonesian shopping centers for selling-counterfeit intellectual property and prevented shoppers from being deceived by counterfeit goods.

In October 2021, through networking obtained from attending ILEA training, Pol. Brig. Gen. Wibowo received an invitation from the United States Government to conduct a comparative study with law enforcement institutions in the U.S., including Homeland Security (HSI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).  Through this liaison, he gained valuable knowledge that can implement in his own country.  During this trip, Pol. Brid. Gen. Wibowo also met with members of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, U. S. Trade Representative (USTRs), and other heads of American Companies, further establishing and expanding his professional network, exchanging information to provide rapid service for the U.S. industry in Indonesia in the field of legal protection.

Pol. Brig. Gen. Wibowo expressed that in the future, cooperation among large industry associations from the U.S., U.S government agencies, and IP Task Force consisting of DGIP, Indonesian Customs, Criminal Investigation Department of National Police, BPOM, and Ministry of Communications and Informatics, is needed to exchange information and to improve the law in IP.  He hopes that all five law enforcement agencies can participate in the training together at ILEA Bangkok as it has adequate facilities and great management.  The instructors from the U.S. government agencies are also very professional.