Indonesia is a fertile place for traditional knowledge with more than 300 ethnical group inhabitants. Therefore, it is not surprising to know that Indonesia has the enormous potential of tradi-tional knowledge. However, Indonesia is still has some problems in legal framework to protect it. The research applies doctrinal research method. The problems that will be discussed in this article is what type of traditional knowledge documentation system that used in Indonesia and how it is performed in order to protect traditional knowledge. There are few goals from this research which are to find out about Indonesia's traditional knowledge documentation system and to compare it with other countries that also use documentation as the protection method. As a result, traditional knowledge documenta-tion system used in Indonesia is external registries which are done by parties outside the indigenous communities (Government, Academist, and NGO) and the information about traditional knowledge is placed in public domain. Even though it has not perfectly documented like India's Traditional Knowl-edge Digital Library, Indonesia has documented few of its traditional knowledge such as Songket pat-tern that belongs to South Sumatera. It could be summarized that traditional knowledge documenta-tion has a vital role as one of the most practical methods to perform traditional knowledge protection. In order to protect traditional knowledge, these documented activities need to be enhanced so it could give the financial benefit to indigenous communities as its owner.

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted many countries. It leads them to imbalance conditions in various sectors, particularly in the economic sector due to the shifting of people's habits. Amidst the recession, Indonesian local horticulture commodities increase in rates, supporting Indonesia's revenue. In Indonesia, abundant natural resources with numerous potential Geographical Indications (GI) need the government and other related parties' intense role. It currently results in weakness in many ways to support sustainable economic development. This study aims to discuss the protection of Geographical Indications both in national and international laws, and analyze certain vital steps to efficiently utilizing Indonesia's GI as trade commodities. The paper will mainly discuss Geographical Indication legal protection and ways to utilize it for the country's economy. The study finds that the legal protection of GI in Indonesia is still considered weak and lacks in parties' active involvement in managing GI-based trade commodities and products. The research concluded that to strengthen GI protection in Indonesia, related party involvement and continuous monitoring and promoting are necessary to be done. Furthermore, the advice is to increase local community awareness by government and non-governmental organizations toward GI potential. It includes developing an efficient protection and management system that fully maximized each party's ability to execute its responsibility. KEYWORDS: Geographical Indications, Intellectual Property, Economic Development.