Event Reports

The EuroCham Retail Working Group conducted a virtual courtesy meeting with the Indonesia Trade Safeguard Committee (Komite Pengamanan Perdagangan Indonesia/KPPI) on Monday, 30 November 2020. The Meeting was chaired by Sutoyo (Deputy Head of KPPI), who was accompanied by Ilham Adinusa (Head of Investigator of the KPPI). During the Meeting, the Deputy Head of KPPI, confirmed that his institution is in the early stage of safeguard investigations on apparels and apparels accesories products. KPPI is also currently collecting inputs from various stakholders whereby inputs from EuroCham will be noted to be further discussed by the KPPI team.

KPPI also warmly welcomed further submission of written inputs for the investigation conducted by KPPI.

EuroCham Import-Export Procedure Working Group together with the HHP Law Firm held a webinar on 25 November 2020 on Omnibus Law and Impact to Trade Customs and Supply Chain. The session, which was moderated by Rachmat Hidayat, as the EuroCham Head for Import-Export Procedures Working Group, presented three distinguished speakers from HHP Law Firm, namely Riza Budiotomo (Partner), Sheriel Ivia Tirta (Senior Trade Specialist), and Audy Ferdiananda (Trade Specialist).

The session opened with some critical points introduced by the Omnibus Law, and subsequently followed by updates on main policy changes related to provisions on trade activities, industry aspects such as sourcing of raw material issues, customs issues and special economic zones.