Event Reports

On 8 February 2022, a Task Force within the EuroCham Pharmaceutical and Medical Technology Working Group held a meeting to discuss the drafting of the Position Paper 2022. As in previous years, the Group once again decided to focus on the topic of Encouraging Economic Recovery through Independent Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Industries in Indonesia. Key issues in the previous year’s position paper that will be carried over include topics pertaining to Universal Health Coverage, Halal, Patent, Local Content, and Public Goods Procurement.

On 7 February 2022, EuroCham, represented by Alvin Christian (Treasurer of EuroCham Board) and Omar Abdulkadir (Head of EuroCham Finance, Tax and Investment Working Group), was invited to a meeting with the Financial Services Authority of Indonesia (OJK). The meeting discussed future event collaborations focusing on current challenges of the financial services in the post-pandemic recovery. OJK was represented in this meeting by Hermawan B. Sasongko (Deputy Commissioner of International and Research), Rendra Idris (Head of International Affairs Department), and Arif Safarudin (Head of Integrated Data and Statistics Group) as well as other senior representatives of the agency.