The Government Continues To Poles The National Keramic Industry For The Anti-Corruption Of Imports

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JAKARTA - The government through the Ministry of Industry (Kemenperin) is focused on spurring the competitiveness of the ceramic industry as well as holding back the pace of imports of ceramic products.

Head of the Standardization and Industrial Services Policy Agency of the Ministry of Industry, Doddy Rahadi, said that one of the strategic steps that had been taken was the implementation of the Indonesian National Standard (SNI) Mandatory for several ceramic products and the safety policy.

The government has also provided a gas price stimulus of 6 US dollars per MMBTU. It is proven that with several policies that have been issued, the import number of ceramic products has decreased," he said in a press statement on Sunday, October 9.

According to Doddy, his party has also issued 28 standard rules including a green industry for ceramic tile products, ceramic sanitary equipment, sheet glass, glass packaging from glass, layered safety glass, hard glass and household appliances made of clay/keramic.

"Through the application of this green industry standard, it is recorded that several ceramic industries can perform cost efficiency of around Rp. 5 billion from the reduction in energy used," he said.

For information, the ceramic industry in the country has developed since a century ago. Therefore, a closer synergy is needed from all parties as a means to get closer and garner national power.

"Not only as a forum in providing information on technical services, collaboration is useful as a means to get input on all productive things today," he said.

Coinciding with 100 years, Industrial Business Meeting activities will be held for two days by involving more stakeholders and more varied activities such as service webinars, FGDs and industry exhibitions.

"This 100-year momentum is expected to be a milestone in providing excellent service and synergizing in advancing the ceramic industry and non-logam minerals, so that the national ceramic industry can be victorious in its own country and is competitive in the global market," concluded Doddy.