Apparently raw material based industries were not getting enough
domestic support. This was one point to be highlighted at the parliamentary
session to discuss the industrial Bill. This was disclosed by Chairman of
commission VI of house Airlangga Hartato after hearing session with National
Standardization Board [BSN] on Monday [27/5].
The development of petro-chemical industry for example, which served as
raw material for the pharmaceutical industry very frequently was running out of
supply of raw materials. Matters such became topic of dissected thoroughly in
discussing the Bill of industry and Bill of trade.
Now raw material based industries were not getting enough supply of raw
materials at home. Local suppliers of raw materials must be insisted and persuaded
to support the industry. Now it became imperative for Indonesia to strengthen
competitiveness and select the sector to be the premium sector. Deeper
understanding of the industry structure and regionalization of trading zones was
necessary. These were some of the important points to be focused in discussing
the industrial Bill.
The objective of industrial Bill was essentially one thing to increase
added value and step up competitiveness. Those were the points to be regulated
by the industrial Bill. A s known, today the industrial Bill and trading Bill
was beginning to be dissected by the Working Committee of House. So far
Indonesia never had any appropriate legal umbrella for industry and trading.
The ministry of trade and the ministry of industry were over burdened
with problems in world’s trading system as there was no legal ground to stand
on. Understandable because the law of trading was non-existent. The law of
industry had been circumcised here and there.
No Austerity Plan Needed
Pursuant to the discussion of budgeting at the National Standardization
Boars [BSN], Vice Chairman of Commission VI of House Aria Bima felt that
austerity in BSN was not necessary, because it would disturb the strategic plan
which was not important. Moreover the amount of money to be saved was measly,
only around Rp6 billion.
Many national products needed to be protected by BSN. Discussions over
budget saving by BSN would soon be dissected by the working committee of
commission VI of house because the role of BSN was strategic and vital. About
the role of BSN in the ASEAN trading zone, Aria stated that there were no free
trade zone in the ASEAN economic zone. No commodity could flow in and out just
like that, there were rules to observe. What was most pressing was regulations
for imported goods that stormed the local market in large quantity. Products of
national standard must be made at once, and local producers must be taught to
produce goods of high quality standard.
Goods which were below national standard must be allowed to move in and
out. As a member of Asean, Indonesia must have a clear parameter of what
qualified products were. The objective was to protect consumers, imported goods
must be screened of their quality standard. (SS)
Business News - May 31, 2013
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