The DJKI API for trademark search
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What is DJKI?
The Direktorat Jenderal Kekayaan Intelektual (DJKI) is Indonesia's national authority responsible for examining and registering trademarks, patents, copyrights, industrial designs, and geographical indications. Headquartered in Jakarta and operating under the Kementerian Hukum dan Hak Asasi Manusia (Ministry of Law and Human Rights), DJKI administers the Indonesian trademark register under Law No. 20 of 2016 on Marks and Geographical Indications (Undang-Undang Merek dan Indikasi Geografis). The register holds roughly 1.5 million records and now receives well over 150,000 new trademark applications per year. Class counts grew about 9% in 2024 alone, and filings in the first quarter of 2025 ran ahead of the same period in 2024 by another 15%, reflecting Indonesia's status as the largest economy in ASEAN with a domestic market of 284 million people.
Indonesia acceded to the Madrid Protocol on 2 October 2017 and began accepting international designations on 2 January 2018, becoming the 100th member of the Madrid System. Since then, Madrid designations of Indonesia have grown into a meaningful share of incoming filings — DJKI typically issues a Madrid designation in around eleven months, faster than the fifteen to eighteen months a direct national application usually takes. Examination runs under the Markenwet-style framework set by Law 20/2016: a formal check, publication for a two-month opposition window, then substantive examination where oppositions are folded into the merits review rather than handled in a separate post-grant proceeding. Appeals against refusal go to the Komisi Banding Merek (Trademark Appeal Commission) and from there to the Commercial Court (Pengadilan Niaga).
DJKI exposes the register to the public through PDKI, the Pangkalan Data Kekayaan Intelektual, at pdki-indonesia.dgip.go.id. PDKI is a free, no-login web search covering trademarks, patents, copyrights, industrial designs, and geographical indications, and it refreshes once per night with the latest publication numbers. There is no general-purpose public REST API or bulk download for full-featured trademark search. Everything runs through the PDKI web UI plus a small set of e-filing endpoints used by registered IP consultants. WIPO's Global Brand Database mirrors roughly 1.2 million of the Indonesian collection on a periodic update cycle. The DJKI register is not on Signa yet. Indonesian marks reach Signa today through WIPO Madrid designations. Join the waitlist to hear when the DJKI register is added.
Unique features
- Largest economy in ASEAN — Indonesia's $1.4T GDP and 284M-person consumer market drive the highest trademark filing volume in Southeast Asia, with roughly 155K new applications in 2024 and ~9% YoY growth
- Madrid Protocol member since 2 January 2018 — DJKI was the 100th country to join, and Madrid designations of Indonesia (carrying JID-style international references) are typically examined in around 11 months versus 15–18 months for direct national filings
- PDKI register at pdki-indonesia.dgip.go.id — the free public search covering trademarks, patents, copyrights, industrial designs, and geographical indications, refreshed once per night and accessible without a login
- Two-month opposition window from publication under Law No. 20 of 2016 — significantly shorter than EUIPO's three months; oppositions are folded into substantive examination rather than handled as a separate post-grant proceeding
- Bahasa Indonesia register. Examination, status labels (Terdaftar, Diumumkan, Ditolak, Dalam Proses), and gazette publication are all in Indonesian
- Application-number families include DID (direct national filings), JID (Madrid designations of Indonesia), and the older D00-prefixed historical series that still appears on renewals from the pre-2016 register
- Indonesia's halal certification mark — transferred from MUI to BPJPH in 2022 and protected as a registered certification mark in Nice class 42, with mandatory display on covered products by 2026 — is one of the largest single-class certification programs anywhere in the register
- 10-year renewable protection term under Law 20/2016, counted from the filing date, with a six-month window before expiry and a six-month grace period after; renewal requires a signed statement of use, which sets DJKI apart from most other ASEAN offices
DJKI API — Frequently asked questions
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DJKI API basics
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