National Import Reforms

Overview

Just prior to the end of January 2018, President Joko Widodo voiced his concern regarding the lack of raw materials needed in order to produce finished goods across a number of areas of the country. In order to deal with this issue, the government has now officially launched its 16^th Economic Policy Package to date, which relaxes import provisions for certain goods. As a part of this package, the Ministry of Trade (“Ministry”) recently issued a number of regulations which focus specifically on import-export related matters, as detailed in the table below: