Indonesia: New certification for textile products

 

Indonesia has announced its intention to make textile products subject to its national SNI certification.  For this purpose, the Draft Decree of Minister of Industry on Mandatory Implementation of Technical Specification for Clothing was published.

The draft regulation states that all of the Clothing produced within the country or imported, distributed, and marketed in the country shall fulfil the Technical Specification requirements. The producers who produce these products therefore shall comply with those requirements proven by having a Product Certificate for Using Conformity Mark.

The product certificate on conformity marking shall be issued by a Product Certification Body which has been accredited by KAN and appointed by the Minister of Industry through testing of the conformity of the products’ quality against Technical Specification requirements.

Directorate of the Textile, Leather and Footwear Industry, Ministry of Industry is the institution that is responsible for the implementation of this decree and shall provide a technical guidance of the decree, which covers the procedure of Product Certification and Conformity Marking.

Products that are distributed in the domestic market that originated domestically and are imported shall meet requirements listed in Annex II of the Technical Specification of Apparel.

The regulatory text in Indonesian can be found HERE.

To find out more product compliance, textile compliance and the Indonesian SNI certification, please contact the Product Compliance Institute directly.