The government encourages the use of the commodity balance as the basis for making export and import policies at the Coordination Meeting for Evaluation of Assistance Activities and Completing Proposals for Business Actor Plan of Needs for 2022 in Ciawi, West Java, Friday (30/9/2022). The commodity balance is an effort to create a data and information platform that contains the consumption and production situation of certain commodities for the needs of the population and industrial needs within a certain period that is determined and applied nationally. “So the commodity balance is not only the basis for issuing import approvals (PI) and export approvals (PE). More than that, it is the main basis for making national policies. With a strong balance sheet basis, the selection of policies will be appropriate and the accountability is especially very objective,” said Secretary to the Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Susiwijono in an official statement received in Jakarta, Sunday. He mentioned that there were several main points in the evaluation, starting from the integration of data in the system in each supervisory ministry/institution (K/L) into the National Commodity Balance System (SiNas NK) to facilitate monitoring of the verification phases and issuance of PI and PE permits. There are other options, namely the procedure for submitting the plan of needs for Producer Importer Identification Numbers (API-P) and General Importer Identification Numbers (API-U), to the mechanism for determining commodity balances based on commodity groups. In addition, to ensure the continuity of business licenses, PI and PE that have been issued before the determination of the commodity balance can still be used until their validity period expires.
Susiwijono hopes that the establishment of a commodity balance can become a single reference data between ministry/institution (K/L). A single platform for Business Licensing Services to Support Export-Import Business Activities (PBUMKU) guaranteeing certainty of timing, amount, and cost of licensing, encouraging simplification of trading systems, increasing transparency, as well as part of efforts to prevent corruption. The commodity balance will function as the basis for issuing PE and PI, reference for data and information on the consumption and production situation of a commodity on a national scale, reference for data and information on conditions as well as projections for national industrial development, as well as a reference for issuing PBUMKU in the export and import sector from the supervisory ministry/institution. All of these are under Article 29 of Presidential Regulation Number 32 of 2022 concerning Commodity Balance, the determination of commodities for which PE and PI issuance will be carried out in phases, and the results are based on the evaluation of the commodity preparation for the implementation of the commodity balance next year. There are 24 commodity groups (19 commodity groups that have just been established in Phase II of 2022 and five commodity groups that have been defined in Phase I of 2021 that are ready for the implementation of the commodity balance and are included in the SiNas NK.
