GINSI wants PSI system<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The Indonesian Importers Association (GINSI)
\nproposed to the government on Monday to re-impose the preshipment
\ninspection (PSI) of imports to curb the recent increasing
\nsmuggling of various products into the country.<\/p>\n
GINSI chairman Amirudin Saud said the PSI system would also
\nprevent rampant practices of under-invoicing by importers, which
\ncould inflict financial losses to the government.<\/p>\n
\"We are ready to bear the cost of the PSI,\" Amirudin said at a
\nmeeting with Industry and Trade Minister Luhut B. Panjaitan.<\/p>\n
The government scrapped the corrupt Director General of
\nCustoms and Excise of its inspection authority in 1985 and then
\nentrusted Geneva-based Societe Generale de Surveillance (SGS) to
\nconduct preshipment inspections of imports.<\/p>\n
The customs office regained its inspection rights in April,
\n1997, and implemented the postshipment inspection system for
\nimports.<\/p>\n
Since the customs office resumed its inspection authority,
\nAmirudin said, smuggling cases were on the rise, and the
\ngovernment's income from import duties and excise dropped. (rid)<\/p>",
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