To maintain the competitiveness and productivity of domestic industry and ensure fair competition, Kemenperin continues to supervise and enforce compliance with the Indonesian National Standards (SNI) made mandatory by the Ministry of Industry.
Supervision of Mandatory SNI is needed to protect domestic industry from a flood of illegal imports and ensure fair competition. “To achieve this, Kemenperin supervises products subject to mandatory SNI. In regular supervision, Kemenperin has seized electronics, safety shoes, children's toys and agricultural machinery without an SNI Product Certificate for Use of the Mark (SPPT SNI),” the Inspector General of the Ministry of Industry, M. Rum, said on behalf of the Minister of Industry at a press conference on the results of Mandatory SNI supervision in Jakarta on Monday (16/12).
Kemenperin, through the Agency for Industrial Standardization and Services Policy and in cooperation with the Indonesian National Police (POLRI), seized products without SPPT-SNI: 1,320 semi-automatic knapsack sprayers worth around IDR 396 million under the IMISA and FARMJET brands; 1,701 pairs of safety shoes worth IDR 2.8 billion under the CATERPILLAR, NAVIGO and SEPTIGO brands; 44,133 children's toys of various brands worth IDR 1.5 billion under the HOCHIHOKU and ZAVANESE brands; and 196 active speakers worth IDR 311 million under the W-KING, URBANO and HAFSUN brands.
Kemenperin has ordered the businesses marketing these products without SPPT SNI to stop their business activities and has prohibited the circulation of products under these brands within the territory of the Republic of Indonesia.
“We order all these businesses to stop importing and they are prohibited from distributing products under the brands above. Kemenperin also reminds other businesses, both importers and manufacturers, to obtain SPPT SNI for types of goods whose SNI has been made mandatory by the Minister of Industry,” the Head of BSKJI at Kemenperin, Andi Rizaldi, stressed.
According to Andi, Kemenperin will continue supervision to ensure businesses remain compliant with the SNI provisions set out in Law Number 3 of 2014 on Industry.
The products found by Kemenperin were mostly imported from China. Without SPPT-SNI, these products could endanger users' safety and security and damage fair competition in the country.
“Every violation of Law 3 of 2014 will be acted on by Kemenperin. We will continue to uphold the rules already in place, especially those on mandatory SNI,” Andi said.
Kemenperin is also working to tighten Mandatory SNI regulations and their supervision. There are currently 131 products subject to mandatory SNI. The Head of BSKJI hopes the number of mandatory SNIs for products circulating in the domestic market will continue to grow.
Source: Press Release of the Ministry of Industry of the Republic of Indonesia