Dubai Customs Authority Studies Indonesia’s Single Window System
Jakarta (ANTARA) – Dubai’s customs authority visited the office of the Ministry of Finance’s National Single Window Agency (LNSW) to study Indonesia’s implementation of a single window system.
The visit was part of a series of activities by Dubai customs officials in Indonesia to study dry-port management and trade facilitation practices, including the single window.
“Indonesia’s single window management is relatively unique because it does not fall under the customs authority, as is commonly the case in many other countries,” LNSW head Oza Olavia said in a press statement in Jakarta on Wednesday.
The Indonesia National Single Window (INSW) is a national digital ecosystem integrating various systems and information relating to customs, quarantine, licensing, ports, airports, and export, import and logistics documentation.
Oza said about 29 ministries and government agencies are now integrated with the INSW system.
In Dubai, meanwhile, the single window, known as Dubai Trade, is managed by a private company under government supervision. Businesses are therefore charged to use Dubai Trade’s services, unlike LNSW services, which are free of charge.
Fachry Rozy Oemar, head of LNSW’s Information Systems Planning Subdirectorate, explained that development of the Indonesia National Single Window System (SINSW) now covers not only pre-cargo clearance, cargo clearance and post-cargo clearance for exports and imports, but has also been expanded to support the movement of goods domestically.
“INSW is transforming public digital services in exports, imports and logistics through the implementation of an integrated electronic system,” he said.
For electronic data exchange between the INSW and other countries’ systems, SINSW has exchanged data on electronic Certificates of Origin (e-CoO), ASEAN Customs Declaration Documents (ACDD) and electronic Sanitary and Phytosanitary certificates (e-SPS) with ASEAN member states through the ASEAN Single Window (ASW).
In addition, e-CoO data is exchanged through the INSW Gateway with other partner countries on a bilateral basis, including Australia, South Korea, Japan and China.