Indonesian Kets Shoes Ever Contaminated With Cs-137, Long Before The Scene Of Shrimp

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Industry (Kemenperin) revealed that the Dutch Customs and Excise party found a number of sneakers products from Indonesia contaminated with radioactive Cesium-137.

The information was disclosed by the Director General of Metal, Machinery, Transportation Equipment and Electronics (ILMATE) of the Ministry of Industry, Setia Diarta in a Hearing Meeting (RDP) with Commission VII DPR RI at the Parliament Complex, Senayan, Jakarta, Monday, November 10.

The man who was familiarly called Tata said that the radiation exposure was revealed long before the United States Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) found Cesium-137 radiation in shrimp and clove products from Indonesia in August and September 2025.

"We need to convey this because people are excited only with shrimp. But long before this shrimp, we had actually received a report from the Dutch Customs on the findings of several boxes of sneakers," said Tata.

"Kets which have a maximum radiation exposure of 110 NanoSV per hour due to Cs-137," he continued.

After an investigation, the shoes came from the Banten Province.

"Further investigations into these sneakers show that there is a shoe box that contains a pair of shoes with a contamination activity of around 1.5 KBq Cs-137 and a specific 1.6 Bq/gr Cs-137," he explained.

The Cesium-137 radiation case is currently in the spotlight because its impact is quite dangerous for health.

Previously, in August 2025, the FDA detected Cs-137 contamination of frozen shrimp products exported by PT Bahari Makmur Sejati (BMS).

The company is one of the largest suppliers in the US and is recorded to have shipped 38 million kilograms of shrimp this year.

Not only that, but the FDA also detected Cs-137 contamination of spice products from the Republic of Indonesia.

In a report published by the FDA, exposure to Cesium-137 radioactive substances was detected in the cloves sent by the company PT Natural Java Spice to California.

Based on these findings, the FDA then blocked the import of all spices from PT Natural Java Spices (NJS).

The FDA emphasized that it will tighten supervision of all products from Indonesia, both spices and seafood.

All products from the two Indonesian companies will remain detained until there is evidence of improvement.

In fact, it is possible that the ban list will be expanded if new violations of products from Indonesia are found.