Event Reports

On 24 January 2018 EuroCham Cosmetics Working Group held its first working group meeting. The agenda was the election of head and deputy head of the working group. Participants agreed to elect Ms. Uti Daniawati Mahanani (Unilever Indonesia) as the new Head of Working Group and Ms. Riva Dwitya Akhmad (L’Oreal Indonesia) as the Deputy Head. 

Aside than the election of head and deputy head of the working group, the working group also discussed on the working group’s activities for 2018 starting from the amount of regular working group meeting up to numbers of possible courtesy meeting that the working group could conduct.

The meeting ended with several regulatory updates related with the Cosmetics industry which mostly are regulations from BPOM. The meeting was followed by the discussion on some possible concerns might arise from the new regulation and follow up advocacy that can be done by the working group.

The Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Working Group met with Ibu Linda Sitanggang, Director General of Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices Services, Ministry of Health, on Wednesday, 20 December 2017.

The group had previously engaged with DG Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Services in the past, and conducted closing year meeting to exchange views and discussed the current developments related to the Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices sector, under the overarching theme “Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices, Year in Review and Year Ahead”. Were discussed during the meeting, some issues regarding the clarification of recent development on Local Content for pharmaceutical and medical devices, Halal Law implementation, Patent Law implementation, and the progress of the JKN listing process that is currently in progress.

The DG warmly welcomed the visit and appreciated the continuous communication between industries with the regulators to seek common understanding. The DG further said that local content for pharmaceutical is inevitable, and therefore industry must be ready to change the mindset.