Head of BRIN's Center for Macroeconomic and Financial Research (PR EMK), Bahtiar Rifai, emphasized BPOM's readiness to apply AI for pre-market supervision of processed food.
"BPOM is ready to adapt AI for Ereg RBA (Risk-Based Processed Food Registration Application) at the Potential level, or Level II of the four readiness scales," Rifai noted in a statement from his office on Thursday.
He highlighted that BPOM has advantages in the pillars of data and infrastructure; technology and innovation; as well as human resources; and an organizational culture that has reached maturity at the Adapter level, or Level III.
"With such abilities, the BPOM can adopt the use of AI to decide for issuing Distribution Permit Numbers (NIE) through checking document completeness, validity and correctness of documents, and simulating recommendations from evaluation results," he remarked.
To realize the use of AI at BPOM, he emphasized the need for large investments in technological infrastructure for AI development and human resources and culture transformation to drive synergy between humans and technology. This also aims to prepare regulations, AI Ethics, and data security.
However, Rifai pointed out that Indonesia's food safety index was recorded at 60.2, or ranked 63rd out of 113 countries, and is still considered weak in terms of availability, quality, and safety, as well as sustainability and adaptation. Hence, he believes that improvements in some aspects are still necessary.
Meanwhile, BPOM's Acting Deputy for the Supervision of Processed Food, Ema Setyawati, emphasized the role of food registration as one of the approaches taken by the Indonesian government.
This role aims to realize food safety by monitoring quality and nutrition as imbrued in the context of World Food Safety Day (WFSD).
"AI has the opportunity to assist in identifying possible irregularities in the quality and safety of processed food products as well as mitigate food safety incidents," Setyawati remarked.
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Translator: Sean Filo M, Resinta Sulistiyandari
Editor: Azis Kurmala
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