LNSW Opens Door to Electronic Trade Data Exchange with Dubai
Jakarta (ANTARA) – The Ministry of Finance’s National Single Window Institution (LNSW) is exploring co-operation on electronic trade data exchange with Dubai to improve trade facilitation between Indonesia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
LNSW Information Technology Director Wawan Ismawandi said a visit by a delegation from Dubai Customs to the LNSW office in Jakarta on Wednesday (21 October) provided an opportunity for both sides to share experience in managing digital trade systems.
“We can learn about how trade facilitation is handled there,” Wawan said in a statement cited in Jakarta on Thursday.
The visit was part of a series of activities by Dubai Customs in Indonesia to study the implementation of a single window, the management of dry ports and trade facilitation.
LNSW head Oza Olavia explained that Indonesia’s National Single Window (INSW) has characteristics that set it apart from similar systems in many countries: it is not managed by customs authorities, but by the LNSW under the Ministry of Finance.
INSW is a national digital ecosystem that integrates systems and information relating to customs, quarantine, permits, ports, airports, and export, import and logistics documents. A total of 29 ministries and government agencies are currently integrated with the system.
Dubai Customs Director-General Abdulla Mohammed Busenad said he hoped electronic data exchange could be established to boost trade between the two sides. He said trade between Indonesia and Dubai was already proceeding quite well.
Abdulla also praised INSW’s development, saying its level of maturity was approaching—and could potentially surpass—that of Dubai’s system.
“We are surprised by the achievements and level of maturity of the INSW system, which is now close to ours and may even surpass our level of maturity,” he said.
Dubai’s single-window system, known as Dubai Trade, is managed by a private company under government supervision. Unlike INSW, which provides its services free of charge, Dubai Trade charges users for access. Abdulla said Dubai plans gradually to transfer management of the service from the private sector to the government.
LNSW Information Systems Planning Subdirectorate head Fachry Rozy Oemar said INSW’s development covers not only processes before, during and after customs clearance for export and import activities, but has also expanded to support the movement of goods within the country.
Internationally, INSW has facilitated electronic data exchange through the ASEAN Single Window, including electronic Certificates of Origin (e-CoO), ASEAN Customs Declaration Documents (ACDD) and electronic Sanitary and Phytosanitary (e-SPS) documents with ASEAN member states.
Bilateral e-CoO data exchange has also been established with several partner countries, including Australia, South Korea, Japan and China.