Following Jokowi's Order, The Attorney General Orders His Staff To "Watch" Imported Goods Labeled As Local Products

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo asked Attorney General ST Burhanuddin to "eye" on imported products so that they are not labeled as domestic products. Responding to this, Attorney General ST Burhanuddin immediately complied.

The head of the Attorney General's Office for Legal Information, Ketut Sumedana, said that Burhanuddin had ordered his staff to investigate the findings of imported goods labeled as domestic products.

"The Indonesian Attorney General Burhanuddin ordered the Deputy Attorney General for Intelligence, the Heads of the High Prosecutor's Office, the Heads of the District Attorney's Office and the Heads of Branches of the District Attorney's Office throughout Indonesia to carry out intelligence operations to search for and find goods or foreign products labeled as if they were domestic products," said Ketut in his statement, Friday, March 25.

Ketut said, this instruction was issued in order to support the policy of the President of the Republic of Indonesia to optimize the use of domestic products.

"In order to immediately implement and report this order in stages to the leadership of the work unit," he said.

The order to oversee the circulation of imported products was conveyed by President Jokowi while giving briefings to his ministers and institutions and heads regarding the proud affirmation action made by Indonesia in Bali today, Friday, March 25.

"I will monitor it properly, I ask the Attorney General later not to let imported goods into here be labeled as domestic products because often in the market place there are things called aggregators who label," Jokowi said, quoted from the Presidential Secretariat's YouTube.

"Hey, don't think we don't understand," he continued.

Jokowi emphasized that this kind of incident had actually happened several times. The government has also often warned, but the stamping of imported products into local products in the marketplace often occurs.

So, he asked all parties to jointly carry out surveillance. "I ask that everything is really monitored and monitored," he said.

The request for the implementation of this supervision, continued Jokowi, also applies to the Minister of Trade to the Director-General of Customs and Excise. "Including the Minister of Trade, the Director-General of Customs and Excise. (For example, ed) monitor where these medical devices go, ooo, to province A, to Regency B. Now it's easy to see," concluded Jokowi.