Event Reports

On Friday, 6 July 2018 the Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices Working Group held a meeting hosted by Novartis Indonesia. The meeting chaired by Ms. Hanum Yahya and Mr. Harimurti Listiano, as recently elected Working Group Leaders. The discussion commenced with explanation on recent changes in working group leadership.

The meeting continued with new policy updates related to implementation of post border measure in the sector, new BPOM regulation on drug management, as well as recent changes in licensing service application. The meeting also discussed Local Content, Halal requirement and implementation of Patent Law. The members examined whether updates on policies has impacted the business process and determined the best possible advocacy strategy to address the issues related to new policy as well as recurrent issue. The meeting ended with handover of token appreciation to Mr. Dono Widiatmoko as a former Head of Working Group.

On 5 July 2018, the Energy Working Group held a meeting with Mr. Harris, Director of Various New and Renewable Energy, and Mr. Dian Wirengjurit, Special Staff to the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, to share insights on the pipeline regulations and programmes by DG EBTKE.

Chaired by Mr. Thomas Wagner as the Head of the Energy Working Group, the meeting commenced with a presentation by Mr. Harris, explaining the progress of PPA to date. Following the presentation, there was a discussion session involving all meeting participants on the challenges and potential collaboration for Renewable Energy projects, such as RE financing, issues identified with the BOOT scheme, registration and direct selection by PLN, as well as incentives and regulatory simplification.

The fruitful discussion led the Working Group to clarify certain issues, and determine possible business-to-business opportunities/areas in which their participation is needed and wanted. The meeting ended with the representatives of ESDM willing to further discuss these topics in the future.