The Trade Minister Calls There Are 40 Steel Companies Not Fulfilling SNI

Steel products that do not meet Indonesia's national standards (SNI) are sealed. (Photo: Mery Handayani/VOI)

SERANG - Minister of Trade (Mendag) Zulkifli Hasan said that there are around 40 steel companies whose products do not meet Indonesia's national standards (SNI). Of these, 3 companies have been sealed.

The companies produce concrete steel (BjTB) which is harmful to consumers and also to domestic industries.

"It is suspected that there are 40 factories like this, I have sealed three areas here (arang)," he said in Cikande, Serang, Banten, Friday, April 26.

The man who is familiarly called Zulhas said the average company is a company that moves from China to Indonesia.

There are 40 companies like this (moving in the steel sector). This (companies) are moving from China. In China, factories like this are no longer allowed, moving here," he explained.

Furthermore, he said that steel factories that are not in accordance with standards are actually no longer allowed in other countries. However, because Indonesia's policy of attracting investors as much as possible certainly does not avoid various violations.

"There are 40 companies issued with permits by the BKPM. We need workers, so let's give them in, but once again there are industrial elements like this violating SNI, it's dangerous, it's very detrimental to consumers. It can collapse the building, if the bridge can tilt the bridge, therefore we will arrange it," he said.

Previously, the Ministry of Trade (Kemendag) through the Directorate General of Consumer Protection and Trade Order (PKTN) temporarily secured concrete steel products that did not meet the quality requirements of the Indonesian National Standard (SNI) worth Rp257 billion.

Trade Minister Zulkifli Hasan said the concrete steel products that did not meet the 2052:2017 SNI were produced by PT Hwa Hok Steel, in Serang, Banten.

"From the results of special supervision carried out on March 6, 2024 by PKTN, there were 3.6 million sticks or 27,078 tons with a value of Rp257.23 billion that did not match SNI," he said in Cikande, Serang, Banten, Friday, April 26.

Security is carried out based on Article 40 of the Regulation of the Minister of Trade Number 69 of 2018 concerning the Supervision of Circulating Goods and/or Services. Referring to these regulations, steel products that are not by SNI will be destroyed.

"In accordance with the rules, it must be destroyed, therefore we are here today," he explained.