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Indonesia: Government probes importers for misusing post-border check policy
The Trade Ministry has found some importers to have misused the post-border check policy implemented in early February.
Trade Ministry international trade director general Oke Nurwan said the “naughty” importers had misused the policy by not including valid documents and making false declarations about the goods they had imported.
“We are investigating the case. It we find [the importers] guilty, we will punish [them],” he said when disseminating the new policy to the Shopping Centers Tenants Association (Hippindo) in Jakarta on Thursday as reported by kontan.co.id.
Oke, however, declined to mention the name of the importers, but added that the punishment could be in the form of a warning to revoke their import permits.
He assured that the government would maintain the post-border check system, but would improve the policy to prevent any attempts to misuse it.
Unlike the border control policy, under which imported goods were checked at ports by officers of the Directorate General of Customs and Excise, under the post-border check policy, the imported goods are checked outside the ports.
Meanwhile, Hippindo chairman Budihardjo Iduansyah welcomed the introduction of the post-border check system, saying it was the government’s accommodation to the proposal made by the business community.
Indonesia’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) deputy chairwoman for international affairs Shinta W. Kamdani said the new system could shorten the import process from two weeks with the old system to one week with the new system. (bbn)
Source: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2018/03/23/government-probes-importers-for-misusing-post-border-check-policy.html