Background Music for Hotels in Indonesia
A hotel is not one room. Lobby, restaurant, bar, spa and function space each need their own programme — and each is commercial use under Indonesian law.
Named in the Regulation
Accommodation facilities are named directly in the analogue commercial-use categories under Permenkum 27/2025.
Commercial music engages five separate rights: public performance of the composition, public performance of the sound recording, reproduction of the sound recording, recording and master rights, and publishing rights for commercial use. LMKN and its member LMK administer public performance through collective management. The other three rights sit elsewhere.
Permenkum 27/2025 places the royalty obligation on the event organiser or the business owner — not the performer, and not the supplier. The establishment operating the premises is the responsible party, and that responsibility does not transfer through a subscription agreement.
Why Music Matters in Hotels
Background music in a hotel does more work than in almost any other environment. The lobby sets expectation within seconds of arrival. The restaurant has to support conversation at breakfast and atmosphere at dinner, in the same room, hours apart. The bar carries the evening.
A property running one playlist across all of these is using a single tool for five different jobs. Zone programming and dayparting solve that — and on a managed service, neither requires anything from your team.
Zones and Dayparting
A managed programme treats these as separate problems, each with its own schedule:
- Lobby and reception — arrival tone, adjusted through the day
- All-day dining — breakfast, lunch and dinner as three distinct programmes
- Bar and lounge — evening energy without overwhelming conversation
- Spa and wellness — sustained calm, no vocal intrusion
- Function and event spaces — arrival, breaks and receptions
All of it is handled on your behalf. There is no dashboard, and nothing for your team to schedule.
The Reproduction Gap
Reproduction is the right most operators never consider. It is engaged whenever a recording is copied — downloaded to a media player, cached by an application, or stored on local playback hardware. Nearly every commercial music system does this in normal operation, because reliability depends on the music being held on site rather than streamed continuously. Reproduction rights are also territorial: a supplier licensed in another country frequently cannot confer valid coverage for use in Indonesia, whatever its agreement states.
How MUSICVYBE Is Licensed
MUSICVYBE holds direct licences covering all five commercial music rights in a single subscription, valid in Indonesia and internationally.
The catalogue is curated by unnamed specialists with more than twenty years of experience programming music for hospitality, retail and financial environments — and because it is directly licensed and outside LMKN and LMK repertoire, no separate collective licence is required for the music we deliver.
Explore MUSICVYBE Indonesia
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| Permenkum 27/2025 Explained | What the 2025 regulation changed |
Frequently Asked Questions
Are hotels covered by Permenkum 27/2025?+
Yes. Accommodation facilities are among the 23 categories of analogue commercial use the regulation names.
Do we still need an LMKN licence if we use MUSICVYBE?+
Our position is that no collective licence is required for music delivered through MUSICVYBE, because the catalogue is directly licensed and sits outside LMKN and LMK repertoire. A collecting society’s claim derives from the works it controls. Music from other sources is assessed separately.
What does Permenkum 27/2025 actually require?+
It implements Government Regulation No. 56 of 2021, strengthens LMKN’s role as the central collection body, distinguishes analogue from digital commercial use, and defines 23 categories of analogue use that attract royalties.
Who is liable if our venue is underlicensed?+
The business owner or event organiser. Liability sits with the establishment and does not transfer to a music supplier through a subscription agreement.
Get Your Indonesian Hotels Fully Licensed and Curated
Five rights, one subscription, fully managed. Talk to MUSICVYBE.