Customs And Excise Denies Wearing Coffin Imports From Malaysia

JAKARTA - The Directorate General of Customs and Excise (DJBC) has opened his voice about the news that 30 percent of the coffin import duty from Malaysia is not true. DJBC confirmed that the news was not true.

As is known, it is crowded on social media X an account called @ClarissaIcha to tell the experience of a friend who has to pay import duties for his father's coffin of 30 percent because it is considered a luxury item.

Head of the Sub-Directorate for Public Relations and Customs and Counseling, Encep Dudi Ginanjar, confirmed that the statement made by @ClarissaIcha on social media X was certainly not true.

Encep said that after checking the delivery of coffins and corpses from Penang, Malaysia, no one was billed or collected from import duties or taxes.

"It should be noted that for sending bodies from abroad to Indonesia, no import duties and taxes are collected in the context of imports," said Encep in an official statement, Sunday, May 12.

Furthermore, Encep explained that based on the Decree of the Minister of Finance Number 138/KMK.05/1997 concerning Exemption of Import Duty on Imports of Pets or Other Packaging Containing Bodies or Ash Bodies, it was stated that other coffins or packaging containing bodies or ashes were coffins or packaging regardless of the type or composition, which were used to store bodies or ashes for transportation purposes into Indonesian customs areas, given the exemption of import duties.

"As well as being given rush handling or immediate service for the import of coffins and corpses," said Encep.

The rush handling or immediate service is customs services provided for certain imported goods whose characteristics require immediate services to be removed from the customs area, one of which is the corpse.

Currently, said Encep, Customs and Excise has contacted the person concerned to include proof of the bill, if there is indeed an import duty bill. But until now, he said, Twitter owners have not responded.

"If there is a bill during the handling of the coffin, it is better for the importer to confirm the details of the bill again to the cargo or agent handling the delivery of the corpse," concluded Encep.

Previously, the @ClarissaIcha account shared the experience of a friend who wanted to bring home his father's body from Malaysia. However, the coffin is subject to an import duty fee by Customs and Excise of 30 percent of the price of the coffin.

"Yesterday, he served his father, a friend, the deceased died in Penang. This friend told me that at the airport he had to pay customs of 30 percent of his father's coffin targa, considered a luxury item," wrote Clarissa, quoted on Sunday, May 12.

"Yes, the coffin is not cheap, but there is no debate time and waiting for it to go viral, right. Too much," he continued.

95 also conveyed the conditions experienced by his friend. He said his friend had paid a lot for his parents' treatment abroad. Plus you have to pay tax levies.

"Already not satisfied with domestic health services, the cost may be more. When the fate of death abroad, you just want to be buried again," he wrote.