The Ministry of Industry stated they planned
to revise Permenperin No.15/MM-IND/PER/3/2014 by simplifying procedure of
recommendation-giving for registered exporters by on line. Recommendation from
the Ministry of Industry was needed by the Ministry of Trade to meet the
procedures as required b the Regulation.
Permenperin
No.15/M-IND/PER/3/2014 on Recommendation-giving by Registered Exporters of
Processed and Purified Minery Products was related to Permendag
No.04/M-DAG/PER/I/2014 on Rules for Export of Processed and Purified Minery
Products. Hence simplification of the procedure would ease export activities of
minery products. In this case it was not necessary for companies registered at
the Ministry’s database to apply for export recommendation the manual way.
In
response to Government’s plan, The Association of Indonesian Mineral Processors
and Purifier stated that export recommendation by on line would cut long
bureaucracy chain. Jonathan Handojo, chairman of the association stated in
Jakarta on Friday (25/9) that the way it had been, to obtain such
recommendation producers must apply for it the Ministry of Industry to be
further passed on to the Ministry of Trade.
Through
integrated database, processors and purifier companies with the status of
Industrial Permit registered at the Ministry of Industry could automatically
export their products. In many cases Processors or Purifier companies of IUI
status were not permitted to export products if they did not have Mining Permit
(IUP), while permit application must be through the Ministry of Energy and
Mineral Resources. Jonathan said that this month there were two smelter
companies who started to produce pig iron (NPI) they were: PT Bintang Timur
Steel and PT Fajar Bhakti Lintas Nusantara. Hence of 21 association members, 13
companies had now started to produce.
In
that same opportunity Jonathan urged the Government to cancel relaxation plan
for export of raw minerals. He said that relaxation for bauxite and nickel
exporting could injure smelters now operating in Indonesia. So far production
activities in Smelters were hindrance due to scarcity of raw materials among
IUP owners while many smelters in Indonesia had no mine because they only had
IUI. If export valve for raw minerals were open, smelter companies would
crumble.
He
said that rules relaxation for exporting raw minerals in order to jack up
export and increase natural forex reserves would destroy industry downstreaming
process and spoil Indonesia’s credibility among foreign investors. The point
was that smelter companies operating Indonesia were joint venture companies
between Indonesia and South Korea, the Middle East countries, and China etc.
Therefore
companies urged the Government to obey Law No. 4/2009 on Minery and Coal and
Law No.3/2014 on Industry. Smelter operators, he said, also urged the
Government to revise Govt. regulation PP No. 17.1986 on Authority, Regulation, Counseling
and Developing Industry as implementation on Law No. 5/1984 on industry which
had been cancelled and replaced by Law No. 3/2014. (SS)
Business New - September 30, 2015
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