Ministry of Transportation Adds 32 Ports to Implement Inaportnet System, Total Has Been 109

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Transportation has added as many as 32 ports that are implementing online-based ship and goods service applications or Inaportnet. Thus, a total of 109 ports have implemented Inaportnet this year.

The Minister of Transportation, Budi Karya Sumadi, said that Inaportnet is a national-scale application that integrates information systems from various related institutions and Port Business Entities.

"Inaportnet is one of the Presidential Instructions in efforts to organize the logistics ecosystem. For this reason, I ask for the commitment and consistency of all relevant parties to the applicable operational standards (SOPs)," said Budi Karya Sumadi as quoted from Antara, Tuesday, December 13.

Budi Karya targets that by 2023, it will continue to increase the number of ports implementing Inaportnet.

"The target is that in 2023 we will add another 151 ports so that a total of 260 ports will have implemented Inaportnet next year," he said.

Apart from Go Live Inaportnet, on the same occasion the Integrity Pact for the implementation of Inaportnet was also signed at 32 ports, 32 Port Business Entities, and 14 Navigation Districts.

The 32 ports that have implemented Inaportnet include: KSOP Class III Labuan Bajo; KSOP Class IV Badas; KSOP Class IV Banda Naira; KSOP Class IV Bima; KSOP Class IV Celukan Bawang; KSOP Class IV Ende; KSOP Class IV Fak-Fak; KSOP Class IV Kalabahi; KSOP Class IV Kalianget; KSOP Class IV Ketapang; KSOP Class IV Kumai; KSOP Class IV Laurentius Say; KSOP Class IV Manokwari; KSOP Class IV Merauke; KSOP Class IV Nunukan; KSOP Class IV Padangbai; KSOP Class IV Panarukan; KSOP Class IV Pangkalan Bun; KSOP Class IV Pulang Knives; KSOP Class IV Synthetic;

KSOP Class IV Sukamara; KSOP Class IV Tegal; KSOP Class IV Toli-Toli; and KSOP Class IV Waingapu.

Several steps have been prepared by the Ministry of Transportation through the Directorate General of Sea Transportation to ensure that the implementation of Inaportnet at 32 ports this year will run well, namely providing training of trainers (TOT) to operators from the KSOP and UPP Offices for the initial stage in March 2022, carrying out a series of trials (infrastructure trials, BUP systems, system integration tests (SIT), and socialization to service users starting September 2022.

Another effort is to instruct the Heads of Syahbandar and Port Authority Offices (KSOP), Port Administration Units (UPP), Navigation Districts, Port Business Entities (BUP), and related stakeholders to start implementing Inaportnet in their respective work areas and to monitor and evaluating its implementation, as well as preparing a complaint service (helpdesk) both offline and online.

Inaportnet functions to integrate existing port information systems in every relevant agency, to serve ships and goods for both export-import and domestic ship activities.

The application of Inaportnet is very important to be carried out consistently to improve ship services at ports so that they can run fast, be reliable, transparent, standardized, and can increase efficiency with minimal costs.