Event Reports

On 11 January, EuroCham participated in the kick-off meeting of the Government Task Force 6 on Global Health Security and COVID-19 (GHSC). The event was hosted by Strategic ASEAN International Advocacy & Consultancy (SAIAC), a Think Tank (T20) for this Task Force and member of EuroCham. In this inception meeting, Shanti Shamdasani (Co-Chair for TF 6) shared details of the activities planned for this year as well as the organizational structure for TF6. At the end of the meeting, she asked for active collaboration from the EuroCham Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices Working Group to contribute to the T20 by bringing together experts from most relevant think tanks to facilitate and communicate research-based policy recommendations to the G20.

On 22 December 2021, the members of the Automotive Working Group met to discuss and exchange updates on latest policy development in the automotive sector. The meeting was chaired by the Head of EuroCham Automotive Working Group, Daniel Purba of Mercedes-Benz. Topics covered among other the issuance of Ministry of Industry Regulation No. 23 of 2021 on Automotive Industry that set out CKD and IKD import mechanism, the issuance of Ministry of Trade Regulation No. 18 of 2021 and No. 20 of 2021 that affected the general import and export procedures, new introduction of the law on harmonization of tax regulations, government plan to impelement net zero emission, implementation commodity balance, import substitution policy, as well as remaining issues in the implementation of the Indonesia National Standard Certification.