Customs and Excise to go online<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): In cooperation with the Directorate General of
\nCustoms and Excise, PT Electronic Data Interchange Indonesia
\nplans to operate a paperless service at Soekarno-Hatta Airport
\nand Tanjung Priok seaport to improve the cargo documentation
\nsystem.<\/p>\n
Company president Widya Purnama told The Jakarta Post Tuesday
\nthat the electronic data interchange service will begin next
\nJanuary.<\/p>\n
\"We will commence a three-month trial operation in January at
\nSoekarno-Hatta Airport. Services will hopefully begin in April
\n1997 at the airport and at the Tanjung Priok seaport,\" he said.<\/p>\n
The electronic data interchange service will facilitate cargo
\ndocumentation, he said.<\/p>\n
\"Businessmen, especially importers, will save both time and
\nmoney. The electronic data interchange service will reduce
\npersonal contact and businessmen will be required to undertake
\nself-assessment,\" he said.<\/p>\n
He said through the service, businessmen will save 50 percent
\nin expenditures.<\/p>\n
Electronic Data Interchange Indonesia, set up in June 1995, is
\na company 49 percent owned by PT Sisindosat Lintasbuana, an
\ninformation technology company affiliated with the state-owned PT
\nIndosat, and 51 percent by PT Pelabuhan Indonesia II, the state-
\nowned company assigned to manage a number of seaports, including
\nTanjung Priok.<\/p>\n
According to Purnama, Electronic Data Interchange Indonesia
\nwill expand its service to customs and excise offices at seaports
\nin Surabaya (East Java), Semarang (Central Java) and Medan (North
\nSumatra) in late 1977.<\/p>\n
\"We are investing about Rp 20 billion for the software,\" he
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
He said that in operating the service, his company will run UN
\nEDIFACT, a system standardized by the United Nations.<\/p>\n
He said that some 20 large-scale freight forwarders and
\nshipping companies already use an electronic data interchange
\nservice run by Electronic Data Interchange Indonesia at Tanjung
\nPriok seaport's cargo terminals. (icn)<\/p>",
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