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forum in 2008 administered by Faculty of Teacher Training and
Education. A number of teaching resources were developed by the
USAID project on the development of primary education infrastructures.
Parallel to the online teacher forum (Guru Portal Online), the other
departments have similarly opened up the educational material including
the video streaming resources, course curricula, research articles and
other digital resources. Having considered the importance of OER in the
future in 2012 UT enacted the decree to adopt Creative Common
Licenses for major learning resources. This policy aims at providing
necessary legal basis of intellectual property right governance in UT.
This policy has not been applicable to printed learning materials as the
writers of UT learning materials come from other universities which still
lack of OER awareness.
In line with the Open Policy, Indonesia government has made
exclusionary provision of the production and reproduction of knowledge
in the Indonesian Copy Right Law as it is used for educational and
research purposes and for disadvantage community (Law Number 19 of
2012). These provisions allow for the development of a Commons
environment especially in promoting OER. Parallel to the principles of
fair use and fair dealing to educational materials are also adopted by
Copy Right Law 19 of 2002. Following the exclusionary clauses of copy
right exemption, the Law No. 12 of 2012 on Higher Education was
enacted and stipulated that the government shall develop open
educational resources. This law serves as a foundation of the Higher
Education Institution to implement the provision of OER in Indonesia.
Along with the open content policy the substantial growing of
Internet users in Indonesia, the need of quality content is indispensable.
The culture of knowledge sharing becomes the backbone of information
society (Castle, 2010). As information becomes overwhelmed over the
internet there need a content management system (CMS) to enable
filtering and selecting the quality of information and knowledge to be