PT Sucofindo to issue ISO 14001 certificates

PT Sucofindo to issue ISO 14001 certificates

JAKARTA (JP): State-owned surveying company PT Sucofindo has
agreed to cooperate with the Japan Audit and Certification
Organization for Environment (JACO) to issue ISO 14001
certificates on environmental management in Indonesia.

Sucofindo's president, Sutrisno, said in a seminar here
yesterday that the company expected to obtain a license in the
near future from the National Standardization Board to issue the
certificates.

ISO 14001 was introduced by the International Standardization
Organization (ISO) last September as a standard for the
environmental management system (EMS) of companies.

"We chose a Japanese partner in the certification service
because we want to serve Indonesian companies, particularly those
jointly established with Japanese partners," Sutrisno said,
adding that there were around 300 Indonesian-Japanese joint
ventures in the country.

He also said his company preferred to cooperate with JACO
because the organization was a major certification organization
in Japan, which had issued 58 ISO 14001 certificates or about 60
percent of the 92 certificates already issued in Japan as of last
October.

According to Sutrisno, there were now four domestic companies
which had accepted ISO 14001 certificates from foreign
certification firms.

P.L. Coutrier, deputy chief of the Environmental Impact
Management Agency (Bapedal), said yesterday that there were 45
other companies waiting for ISO 14001 certification. (13)