ISO-14000 launch planned

ISO-14000 launch planned

JAKARTA (JP): The president of the Geneva-based International
Organization for Standardization (ISO), Eberhard Mollmann, said
yesterday that the organization will introduce ISO-14000
certificates of standardization next year.

"We are still preparing ISO-14000, which concerns
environmental management," Mollmann said after meeting with
executives of the Standardization Council of Indonesia.

"I think the environment is an important field in the world,
especially now when people are more conscious and responsible
towards environmental problems," he said.

Executive secretary of the council, Herudi Kartowisastro, told
The Jakarta Post that Indonesia, which has adopted ISO-9000, must
adopt the ISO-14000 standardization if it wants to win
competition on the world market.

"We have to adopt ISO-14000 to show other countries that
Indonesia complies with the certification, issued by an
independent party, which can be accepted by all people," Herudi
said.

P. Djoko Tjiptadi, a director of PT Sucofindo, a state-owned
surveyor company, said recently that the number of ISO-9000
certificate recipients is only about 70, far lower than the 400
in Malaysia and over 500 in Singapore.

During his three-day Indonesian visit, which began yesterday,
Mollmann is scheduled to attend a meeting of the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Consultative Committee on
Standard and Quality.(ste)