SEOGWIPO, South Korea, June 1, 2009 (AFP) - Indonesia is "very disappointed" over a US move to put it back on a priority watch list of intellectual property rights (IPR) violators, Trade Minister Mari Pangestu said Monday.

She said her country has done its best to fight intellectual piracy, including setting up a national task force and developing an action plan.

"We are obviously very disappointed about this decision by the United States because we have been out of that list for the last two years," Pangestu told AFP in an interview.

"We feel that we have done already quite a lot to address the intellectual property rights issue, including having a national task force, developing an action plan and increasing enforcement."

Pangestu was speaking on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-South Korea Summit in the island of Jeju.

"We will definitely continue to do this in our own national interest, not just because we need to get out of this watch list," she said.

Along with Indonesia, Canada and Algeria were also put on the list to join China and Russia that were long branded copyright pirates. The list, released late April, is compiled by the office of the US Trade Representative (USTR).

In Indonesia, the USTR report said, "there has been little progress on IPR protection and enforcement since 2006," when the Southeast Asian nation began taking "promising steps."

"That trend has not continued and the government appears to be moving backward from some previous advances," the report said.