SI denies involvement in smuggling attemp<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): I Nyoman Moena, the president of PT Surveyor
\nIndonesia (SI), ruled out the involvement of the surveying
\ncompany's officials in the recent failed attempt to smuggle a
\ncontainer of automotive wheel rims from Taiwan into the country.<\/p>\n
Moena said yesterday that the Taiwanese exporter replaced the
\ncontents of the container already checked by SI officials with
\nautomotive wheel rims by altering the box's seals.<\/p>\n
\"The exporter has admitted the offense and had been fined,\" he
\ntold reporters following the inauguration of the new headquarters
\nof the Association of Indonesian Importers (Ginsi).<\/p>\n
He said the container was originally filled with PVC pipes but
\nits exporter replaced them with wheel rims immediately after the
\ninspection had been carried out.<\/p>\n
Moena declined to identify both the exporter and importer. He
\nalso did not want to speculate on the possible collusion between
\nthe two.<\/p>\n
Commenting on SI's plan to take over the whole jobs of pre-
\nshipment inspection on Indonesia's imports from the Swiss Society
\nGenerale de Surveillance (SGS) in December this year, Moena said
\nthat every thing was running as scheduled.<\/p>\n
\"There are only four remaining countries -- Japan, the United
\nStates, South Korea and China -- where inspection of Indonesia's
\nimports are still carried out by SGS,\" he said, adding that the
\nopening of branch offices in those four countries is being
\nprepared.<\/p>\n
He said that SI has so far handled the inspection of imports
\nat ports of loading in 13 countries including Britain, France,
\nItaly, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Singapore, Malaysia,
\nAustralia, Hongkong, Taiwan, Canada and Thailand.<\/p>\n
\"I am optimistic that we will be able to handle all the pre-
\nshipment inspection jobs before the end of this year,\" he said.<\/p>\n
SI is 76 percent owned by the government, 20 percent by SGS
\nand four percent by PT Sucofindo, a state-owned firm, which is
\nresponsible for the pre-shipment inspection of exports.<\/p>\n
The government assigned SGS to conduct custom inspections in
\n1985.(hen)<\/p>",
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