The Implementation Of Excise On Sweetened Drinks Begins To Take Effect In Semester II-2025

JAKARTA - The Directorate General of Customs and Excise (DJBC) of the Ministry of Finance (Kemenkeu) plans to apply packaged sweetened drinks (MBDK) in the second semester of 2025.

Director of Communication and Service Guidance DJBC Ministry of Finance Nirwala Dwi Heryanto said that the implementation of the MBDK excise application was in accordance with the mandate of the 2025 State Budget Law, namely in the second semester of 2025.

"The 2025 target has indeed increased, it is also related to the 2025 State Budget Law, it is stated that the packaged sweetened drinks are planned according to the schedule for the second semester of 2025," he said in a Media Briefing, Friday, January 10.

In addition, Nirwala said in the HPP Law that the requirement to become a new excisable goods so that it can be implemented is included in the APBN law and must notify commission XI in charge of finance and to be applied there must be implementing rules, both Government Regulations (PP) or Regulations of the Minister of Finance (PMK).

According to Nirwala, the implementation of MBDK is not merely pursuing state revenue, but to control excess sugar consumption in the community.

"The principle is to control the consumption of additional sugar. We install a threshold that will be discussed in the PP. So, not all of them are immediately hit. Below that, it doesn't get hit above that," he explained.

On the same occasion, Head of Sub-Directorate for Excise Tariffs and Basic Prices, Akar Harfianto said that although the implementation of MBDK excise is scheduled for Semester II-2025, his party will consider economic conditions and people's purchasing power.

"While waiting earlier, is it really from the condition of people's purchasing power that it is sufficient or capable to have additional burdens," he said.