Trade Minister Receives Confession Pindad Boss: Imports Of Explosives Detained At Port

Minister of Trade (Mendag) Zulkifli Hasan. (Photo: Doc. Ministry of Trade)

JAKARTA - Minister of Trade (Mendag) Zulkifli Hasan revealed that the accumulation of containers at the container port caused the detention of imports of explosives carried out by PT Pindad (Persero).

Zulhas, as Zulkifli Hasan is familiarly called, admitted that he received a direct complaint from the President Director of Pindad Abraham Mose at his residence. Therefore, he admitted that he was late for the launch of the 39th Trade Expo Indonesia at the Ministry of Trade Office.

"Earlier, the President Director of PT Pindad came because he was urgent, he said, yes I received it. Apparently there were imports of explosives that could not get out of the port, it was equally difficult. He had a hard time not leaving the material, Customs and Excise was difficult to fear exploding," said Trade Minister Zulkifli, at the Ministry of Trade Office, Jakarta, Friday, May 31.

Based on the confession of the President Director of Pindad, said Zulhas, the explosives were admitted to have arrived since March 2024. However, the import permit for Pindad explosives was only taken care of in April 2024.

Zulhas also realized that there was a time difference between the arrival of goods and the processing of permits. He also admitted that this was due to technical considerations (pertek) that took time.

For your information, this technical consideration is the authority of the Ministry of Industry.

"I asked why couldn't come out? He said the goods came in March, the permit was only April, that's it. So there's a difference. Why don't the goods go out until the import approval is only April? He said 'pertek-pertek a while sir',' he explained.

For your information, the Ministry of Finance reported an update on the completion of containers held at Tanjung Priok Port and Tanjung Perak Port. As of May 26, 16,451 containers or 62.3 lersen of the total containers held back by 26,415 at the two ports.