- In order to ensure food safety in relation to any horticultural products that are imported into Indonesia, the Minister of Agriculture ("Minister") has issued Regulation of the Minister No. 5 of 2022 on the Supervision of Import Recommendations for Horticultural Products ("Regulation 5/2022").
- All business actors that import horticultural products from foreign countries into the territory of Indonesia are required to undergo processes of integrated supervision that involve the implementation of plant quarantine measures at the relevant points of entry. In line with these measures, said business actors must comply with the following obligations: 1) Must fulfill the plant quarantine requirements; and 2) Must secure Recommendations for Imports of Horticultural Products (Rekomendasi Impor Produk Hortikultura – "RIPH").
- Once the above obligations have been met, administrative examinations and examinations of the conformity of documents will be then carried out in order to verify that the obligations have been adequately fulfilled.
- The Director-General of Horticulture will then upload the RIPH to the Indonesia National Single Window (INSW) portal to be used as a reference in relation to administrative examinations and examinations of the conformity of RIPH documents.
- RIPH must be submitted to plant quarantine officers at the relevant entry points in order to undergo administrative examinations and to ensure the conformity, completeness, correctness and validity of RIPH documents.
- Finally, if RIPH examination result in the relevant documents being declared complete, correct and valid, then the horticultural products in question will then be subject to plant quarantine measures in accordance with the relevant laws and regulations that apply within the field of plant quarantine.
- Regulation 5/2022 has been in force since 18 May 2022.
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