Background Music for Cafés in Indonesia
Cafés sit squarely inside the food and beverage category under Permenkum 27/2025 — and they are among the premises where consumer streaming is most commonly used in error.
Named in the Regulation
Food and beverage establishments 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 Cafés
Cafés run long days with shifting purpose. Morning is transactional. Midday brings laptops and long stays. Late afternoon shifts social. Background music that ignores those transitions works against the room for most of the day.
The other issue is source. Consumer streaming accounts are the default in independent cafés, and their terms restrict use to personal, non-commercial contexts. That is a problem no collective licence resolves.
Zones and Dayparting
A managed programme treats these as separate problems, each with its own schedule:
- Morning — light, unobtrusive, quick-service pace
- Midday — steady texture that supports extended stays
- Afternoon — warmer, more social
- Evening — where trading hours extend, a distinct programme
- Outdoor and terrace seating — programmed for ambient noise levels
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.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Can a café use Spotify or Apple Music?+
Not for commercial use. Consumer streaming services restrict playback to personal, non-commercial contexts in their terms of service. That restriction is contractual and applies regardless of any royalty payment made to a collecting society.
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 Cafés Fully Licensed and Curated
Five rights, one subscription, fully managed. Talk to MUSICVYBE.