What is SNI Certificate?

Indonesian National Standard (abbreviated SNI) is the only standard nationally applicable in Indonesia. SNI was formulated by the Technical Committee and defined by BSN.(National Standardization Agency of Indonesia)

How to Apply SNI Certificate of Indonesia easy?,What is SNI Certificate?, What regulation have to be fulfilled?, SNI Certificate is one importance matter to entry to Indonesia Market, Indonesia have developed thausands of Regulation which called SPPT SNI, SNI Marking or SNI Certificate to protect Indonesian Customer from low and pore quality of product and safety.

In order to have a wide acknowledgement from different stakeholders, SNI is formulated in accordance with the following WTO Code of good practice:

Openness: so that all related stakeholders will be able to participate in SNI development;
Transparency: Transparent so that all relevant stakeholders can follow SNI development from programming, formulation up to the establishment stages and can easily obtain all information related to SNI development;
Consensus and impartiality: so that all relevant stakeholders can take advantage of the existence for their own purpose and be fairly treated;
Effectiveness and relevance: in order to be able to facilitate trade due to its awareness of market demand and not opposing to the existing regulations;
Coherence: Coherent with the international standard development so that the our market will not be isolated from the global market development and will certainly improve the international trade; and
Development dimension: in order to be able to focus on public and national interests in enhancing national economic competitiveness. (source: BSN Strategy 2006-2009)

The government is to impose mandatory SNI on 544 products, which will consist of 521 products of textile and textile product (TPT), 21 products of children toys, and 2 electronic products. This will effectively cover 400 HS tariff codes.

The regulation regarding the SNI will be in the form of Decree of the Minister of Industry and Decree of the Minister of Trade. The Decree of the Minister of Industry are scheduled to be issued by the end of the month. The Decree of the Ministry of Industry will regulate the technical provisions, while the Decree of the Minister of Trade will regulate the import of the products. However, up to this point, no notification to the WTO has been made.

The obligation to comply with SNI will be in force 6 months after the issuance of the Decrees.