In collaboration with Indonesia Anti Dumping Committee (KADI), the ARISE+ Indonesia facilitated training sessions on Ensuring High Quality and Efficient Case Handling and Investigation Processes. Around 40 officials from KADI and the Trade Defense Directorate Ministry of Industry participated in the events to strengthen anti-subsidy (countervailing) implementation, held via Zoom on 22 and 26 February 2021.
On February 24, 2021 Sung-Eun Jun, Oxford Economics country economist, spoke in a virtual workshop facilitated by ARISE+ Indonesia for Bappenas (the Ministry of National Development Planning) on Indonesia: Delayed Growth Recovery amid Prolonged Coronavirus Outbreak. She indicated that Indonesia's economic outlook hinged much upon the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Fish Quarantine and Inspection Agency (BKIPM) under the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (MoMAF) in collaboration with ARISE+ Indonesia held a three-session webinar on the Determination of Heavy Metals and Histamine Content in Fish Products. This webinar is part of a continuous programme deployed by MoMAF to improve the quality of fish products for export.
The Ministry of Trade has received the final report for a Trade Remedy Impact Assessment Methodology and its Implementation Plan from ARISE+ Indonesia on 23 December 2020.
The ARISE+ Indonesia Project Steering Committee (PSC) took place on 14 December 2020 under the co-chairpersonship of Ms. Amalia Adininggar Widyasanti, the Deputy Minister for Economic Affairs, the Ministry of National Development Planning (BAPPENAS) and Hans Farnhammer, Head of Cooperation of the EU Delegation to Indonesia and Brunei. The PSC, which was moderated by P.N. Laksmi Kusumawati, the Director for Trade, Investment and International Economic Cooperation, reviewed implementation progress of the project in 2020 and considered the proposed consolidated Annual Work Plan for 2021. The meeting was the culmination of a consultation process that started early November with project stakeholders on the six components of the Annual Work Plan through the respective Technical Advisory Board Coordinators.
Protecting Geographical Indication (GI) products entails strong cooperation between government competent authorities and the private sector, including GI associations, control bodies and accreditation agencies which are important to monitor and conduct market surveillance. Those are the key takeaways from a webinar on legal protection of GI products.
ARISE+ Indonesia supports the participation of nine Indonesian Geographical Indications (GI) producer associations at Terra Madre in Turin, Italy. The Terra Madre event takes place every two years and offers the opportunity to producers to show and present their products to other producers, buyers and consumers from all over the world. Due to the pandemic, this year the event will have exclusively a digital format and run from 8 October 2020 to April 2021.
The ARISE+ Indonesia programme has organized, from 9 to 20 November 2020, three training workshops for the Ministry of Trade (MoT) and other trade institutions in support to strengthening Indonesia’s capacity to deal with non-tariff measures in international trade.
The ARISE+ Indonesia programme supports the Ministry of Trade to develop a methodology on how to conduct studies for strengthening quality infrastructure to support exports. As a country with great export potential, access to satisfactory quality infrastructure services becomes an urgent issue. Ideally, satisfactory quality infrastructure services are available in regions that produce significant quantities of export products.
The Ministry of National Development Planning (BAPPENAS), the Directorate General of the National Export Development (DGNED) Ministry of Trade, and the Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) delivered the result of a study on investment opportunity in electronics sub-sector in Indonesia, on 13 November 2020. The study is entitled “Deep Dive on Investment in Electronics Sector” provides important information for government agencies and electronics business players to explore export opportunity and attract foreign investors to Indonesia.
