G/SPS/N/IDN/134  
 
30 April 2020  
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION OF EMERGENCY MEASURES  
1. Notifying Member:  INDONESIA  
If applicable, name of local government involved:   
2. Agency responsible:  Indonesian Agricultural Quarantine Agency - Ministry of Agriculture 
of the Republic of Indonesia  
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national 
schedules deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, 
where applicable):  Plant and plant product s 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable : 
[X] All trading partners   
[ ] Specific regions or countries:   
5. Title of the notified document:  Official Letter N umber: 5984/KR.020/K.3/04/2020 
dated 28 April 2020 concerning to Validating of Electronic/Digital/Scanned of 
Phytosanitary Certificate from Indonesia . Language(s): English . Number of pages: 5  
6. Description of content:  In order to facilitate international trade during the Covid -19 
pandemic situation, Indonesia intend to receive the electronic/digital/scanned 
Phytosanitary Certificate from all countries. It is kindly requested for a country to officially 
inform Indonesia  about the implementation of electronic/digital/scanned Phytosanitary 
Certificate for their products exported to Indonesia and it shall be supported with access 
to validate the certificate. This aims to accelerate inspection works of import documents  
at entry points in Indonesia.  
In line with the above stated, Indonesia kindly requested reciprocal measure from trading 
partner countries to receive the electronic/digital/scanned Phytosanitary Certificate from 
Indonesia and has developed a technique for validating the certificate through the IAQA 
portal on : https://ppkonline.karantina.pertanian.go.id/checkcert . 
The mechanism of validating the Phytosanitary Certificate as attached in thi s document.  
7. Objective and rationale: [  ] food safety, [  ] animal health, [X]  plant protection, 
[X] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [X]  protect territory 
from other damage from pests.  
8. Nature of the urgent problem(s) and reason for  urgent action:  The emergency 
measure for validating Phytosanitary Certificate during the Pandemic of COVID -19 for 
accelerating export between Indonesia and trading partner.  G/SPS/N/IDN/134  
 
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  9. Is there a relevant international standard? If so, identify the standard:  
[ ] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g.  title or serial number of Codex 
standard or related text) :  
[ ] World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g.  Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number) :  
[X] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g.  ISPM number) : ISPM 12  
[ ] None  
Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?  
[X] Yes   [  ] No 
If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international  standard:   
10. Other relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  
11. Date of entry into force ( dd/mm/yy )/period of application (as applicable):  
28 April 2020  
[X] Trade facilitating measure   
12. Agency or authority designated to handle comments: [X]  National Notification 
Authority, [  ] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e -mail address 
(if available) of other body:   
Indonesian Agricultural Quarantine Agency  
Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Indon esia 
Jl. Harsono RM No. 3, Building E, 1 st Floor  
Ragunan, Jakarta 12550, Indonesia  
Tel: +(6221) 7816 481  
Fax: +(6221) 7821 367  
E-mail: sps.indonesia@pertanian.go.id  
Website: https://karantina.pertanian.go.id/  
13. Text(s) available from: [X]  National Notification Authority, [X]  National Enquiry 
Point. Address, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of other bod y:  
Indonesian Agricultural Quarantine Agency  
Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Indonesia  
Jl. Harsono RM No. 3, Building E, 1 st Floor  
Ragunan, Jakarta 12550, Indonesia  
Tel: +(6221) 7816 481  
Fax: +(6221) 7821 367  
E-mail: sps.indonesia@pertanian.go .id 
Website: https://karantina.pertanian.go.id/