“Companies may be shut down, have their licenses revoked, and be banned from engaging in similar activities,” he said. “If goods are already in circulation without the proper permits or procedures, companies will be required to recall them.”
As part of the government’s commitment to cracking down on illegal imports, Santoso said strict monitoring is being carried out in collaboration with other agencies.
“Together with institutions and the public, we continue to monitor goods suspected of violating trade regulations,” he added.
The Trade Ministry is also supervising all ports and airports that serve as entry points for imported goods to prevent regulatory violations.
“Right now, the number of violations has started to decline. But if we ease up, they tend to resurface. So, we’ll take enforcement actions more frequently,” Santoso stated.
In a recent operation, the ministry confiscated over 1.68 million illegally imported products from China, worth Rp18.8 billion (approximately US$1.5 million), during a raid at a company warehouse in Tangerang, Banten.
“The goods were imported by PT Asiaalum Trading Indonesia, which is suspected of breaching import regulations,” Santoso announced at a press conference following the company’s shutdown on Thursday.
He revealed that the seized items included 997,296 bolts and nuts of various sizes, around 600,000 gloves, 68,265 miniature circuit breakers (MCBs), and 9,763 electric grinders, saws, and planers.
The violations included non-compliance with Indonesia’s national product standards (SNI), lack of product registration numbers, absence of manuals and warranty cards, and missing Indonesian-language labels on packaging, all of which are required by law.
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Editor: Anton Santoso
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