76th Anniversary, Director General Of Customs And Excise Pledges Sustainable Institution Reform

The atmosphere of this year's Customs and Excise Anniversary celebration (Photo: Doc. Ministry of Finance)

JAKARTA The commemoration of the 76th anniversary of the Directorate General of Customs and Excise this time is marked by the institution's commitment to be able to contribute more to the national economy.

Director General (Dirjen) of Customs and Excise Askolani said that this goal could be realized through the Sustainable Customs and Excise Reform Program, which is currently being intensified by his party.

"This is a reform program that focuses on aligning business processes and information technology, managing human resources, and organizational arrangements," he said in a written statement today, Tuesday, October 4.

According to Askolani, this step must be carried out in rhythm by monitoring and evaluating to produce measurable and beneficial outputs and outcomes for Customs, nation and state.

Excise has great potential to act as a prime mover for improvement in various sectors in this country. Customs and Excise policies and programs can create butterfly effects on improvements in the trade, industry, agriculture, MSMEs, transportation, logistics, security, international cooperation, and others," he said.

Therefore, Askolani said that solid collaboration is needed within the internal and external scope to realize various improvement programs.

"Sectoral egos need to be put aside and achieve a common goal to build a better Indonesia," he said.

He also stated that Customs and Excise continues to build synergies with law enforcement officers, ministries/agencies, business actors, and other state customs agencies.

"This is in accordance with the mandate of the Minister of Finance for Customs and Excise so that it can become a reliable unit and create collaboration in order to provide consistent, standardized, and qualified services, including closing opportunities for evading obligations from business actors," he explained.

For information, this year there are several major achievements of Customs and Excise, such as import facilities of IDR 1.04 trillion related to handling COVID-19, which consists of vaccine import facilities of IDR 831 billion and medical device import facilities of IDR 218 billion.

Meanwhile, revenue performance as of August 31, 2022 has reached Rp206.21 trillion or 68.96 percent of the APBN target. This figure grew significantly by 30.51 percent from the same period 2021.

The score was driven by the growth of import duties of 32.62 percent, exit duties of 83.43 percent, and excise duty of 21.38 percent. Meanwhile, the total levies collected by Customs and Excise for the last three years on average contributed a large portion to the APBN, which was around 23.7 percent of the total revenues in the APBN.

We want to make this moment an opportunity to reflect and strengthen our identity as Customs and Excise. Hopefully after this moment all Customs and Excise employees can work better and be ready to face the challenges that will come," concluded Askolani.