Ministry of Agriculture Regulation on Farm Quarantine Document Service

Ministry of Agriculture Regulation No. 18/Permentan/OT.140/3/2011 on the Farm Quarantine Document Service in the Indonesia National Single Window (INSW) Electronic System (“Regulation”) has been issued, serving as an implementing Regulation of Presidential Regulation No. 18 of 2008 on the INSW Electronic System.

In essence the Regulation ensures time and cost efficiency in processing  agriculture (plant and animal) quarantine documents as part of international trade liberalization of the products. 

Pursuant to Article 1 of the Regulation, the INSW electronic system will be used for farm quarantines related to animal and vegetable exports and/or imports.

Set forth in the Regulation Appendixes, are a set of provisions and guidelines regarding procedures (Chapter II.A & Chapter III.A of the Appendix) and a timeline for processing farm quarantine documents (Chapter II.B & Chapter III.B of the Appendix), and also the types of documents being processed (Chapter II.C & Chapter III.C of the Appendix) by the farm quarantine agency at the Ministry of Agriculture (Article 4).

Some of the many documents enumerated in Chapter II.C & Chapter III.C of the Appendix are, the Phytosanitary Certificate, Letter to Unload Goods, Bill of Lading/Airway bill, Certificate of Origin, and Goods Release Certificate.

Pursuant to Article 4 (1), the INSW electronic system will be implemented by the Farm Quarantine Agency and Technical Farm Quarantine Unit. Additionally, Article 4 (2) states that the INSW implementation could be done in coordination with another related institution.

In the event of a technical failure with INSW, the quarantine documents service may be conducted manually.

The Regulation has an appendix with three chapters. Chapter I is the Introduction, which contains the background of the INSW implementation. This chapter also contains the objectives and scopes of the system.

The Regulation has been in force since 31 March 2011.

For importing fresh food (animal/vegetable) of Japanese origin without a free radiation certificate see ILB No 1654 3 May 2011.