Industry Newsletters

The Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) acknowledged that the value of imports of apparel under HS codes 61 and 62 increased by 55.461 TP3T and 29.611 TP3T per month (month to month/mtm).In terms of the country of origin of the imports, HS 61 goods consisting of knitted apparel and accessories from China...

The Wuling Air EV electric car caused a stir when it was first launched in 2022 as it was the first electric car produced in Indonesia, priced at around Rp 240 million. Meanwhile, then rival Hyundai was selling the car for 8...

The General Customs Administration (GCA) has released data on the contents of 26,415 containers stranded in several ports due to import prohibitions and restrictions (lartas) regulations, the contents of which are mostly raw and auxiliary industrial materials. Customs Communications and User Guidance General...

This year PT Indo Agro Plus (PT IAP) is gearing up for production operations at its frozen french fries factory in West Java, PT IAP is a holding company that will operate the first and only frozen french fries factory in Indonesia and Southeast Asia...

President Joko demonstrated the results of his "Pride Project", in this case the downstreaming of nickel, where the value of downstream exports increased dramatically. The value of nickel downstream exports soared several times, from just 33 trillion rupiah to 510 trillion rupiah. He was in East...

President Joko's government has enacted new health-related regulations, one of which is an excise tax on processed foods, including ready-to-eat processed foods. The provision is contained in Government Regulation No. 28 of 2024 No. 17 of 2023 on the Implementation of the Health Law...

Java is the center of Indonesia's manufacturing industry, and Indonesia's Central Java Industrial Belt is one of the three industrial belts on the island of Java, the emerging vibrant industrial belt, the cost of land and labor costs are very competitive, the cost of land is about 50-100 US...

The government has decided to stop the construction of new nickel refining facilities or smelters producing low value-added products, namely rotary kiln electric furnace (RKEF) smelters producing nickel pig iron (NPI). The Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources said at the Jakarta Petroleum and Natural...

The Minister of Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises (MenKopUKM) has asked the Ministry of Trade (Kemendag) to further tighten control over the flow of imported goods, especially finished products or consumer goods, in order to protect local products from the onslaught of imported goods. The government is pushing...

Shopee e-commerce platform will implement a new policy for product categories and management fees starting September 1, 2024, and this update applies to sellers in non-Star, Star and Star+ categories. In this new policy, Shopee will apply four new product...