Event Reports

On 16 March 2022, EuroCham met with SwissCham Indonesia to discuss the upcoming Sustainability Awards 4.0.  The meeting was chaired by Christophe Piganiol (SwissCham Board of Management and President Director of PT Anugerah Pharmindo Lestari), and Pierre Batu (Founder of SELAVI).  As presented in the meeting, the aim of the project is to support collaboration on sustainable development in Indonesia by identifying and assisting high-impact projects on sustainability.  The categories are specific to Access to Clean Water, Plastic Reduction and Recycling, and Women in Sustainability.

On 11 March, EuroCham Import-Export Working Group convened a meeting focussing on Commodity Balance.  EuroCham invited Krisna Gupta, Assistant Researcher at the Center of Indonesia Policy Studies (CIPS), as the main speaker for the meeting following CIPS’ recent policy paper on Commodity Balance.  The meeting actively discussed the implementation of commodity balance on imports and exports, and updates on Commodity Balance regulations, including the recent Presidential Regulation No. 32 of 2022 on Commodity Balance, which already applies to a number of commodities.  The meeting was chaired and co-chaired respectively by Rachmat Hidayat and Prita Hapsari as the Head and Deputy Head of the Working Group.