. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/IDN/15 
24 November 2006 
 (06-5681) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   INDONESIA
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible:    
Directorate General of Agricultural and Chemical Industry,  
Ministry of Industry  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and web-site 
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be  indicated if different from above:    
Centre for Cooperation on Standardization 
National Standardization Agency, Indonesia (BSN) Manggala Wanabakti Bld, Block IV, 4
th Floor 
Jl.Jend.Gatot Subroto, Senayan 
Jakarta 10270 – Indonesia 
Telephone : +(62-21) 5747043,5747044 Facsmile   : +(62-21) 5747045 Email        : kerj_int@bsn.or.id Website    : http://www.bsn.or.or.id 
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [  X ], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [ X ], 5.7.1 [  ], other:         
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in  addition, where applicable):   
HS  2523.21.00.00: White Cement; HS  2523.29.90.00: Portland Pozzolan Cement  (HS 
2523.30.00.00); HS  2523.29.10.00: Portland Cement  (HS 2523.21); HS  2523.29.29.00: 
Portland Mixed Cement  (HS 2523.29); HS  2523.90.00.00: Masonry Cement   
HS  2523.90.00.00; Portland Composite Cement  (HS 2523.29).  
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:    
Draft decree of Ministry of Industry on Manda tory Indonesia National Standard for Cement  
(4 pages); SNI 15-0129-2004: White Cement, SNI 15-0302-2004: Portland Pozzolan Cement,  SNI 15-2049-2004: Portland Ceme nt, SNI 15-3500-2004: Portland Mixed 
Cement,  SNI 15-3758-2004: Masonry Cement , SNI 15-7064-2004: Portland Composite 
Cement. 
6. Description of content:    
This draft Decree states that all Cement produced within the country or imported, 
distributed and marketed in the country shall fulfill SNI requirements. The producers and or 
importers therefore shall have Product Certifi cate for using SNI Marking and shall comply 
with the requirements of SNI.  G/TBT/N/IDN/15 
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  The product certificate on SNI marking shall be issued by a Product Certification Body 
which has been accredited by National Accred itation Body of Indonesia namely Komite 
Akreditasi Nasional (KAN) through : 
a. Testing of the conformity of quality of cement product against SNI requirements 
(Pengujian kesesuaian mutu semen sesuai dengan ketentuan dalam SNI); 
b. Audit on the application of QMS SNI 19-9001-2001/ISO 9001-2000 ot its revision; 
and (Audit penerapan sist em manajemen mutu SN I 19-9001-2001/ISO 9001-2000 
atau revisinya; dan)  
c. Testing of the conformity of the quality and audit of QMS periodically  
 
The testing and audit of QMS can be subc ontracted to testing laboratories and QMS 
certification bodies within Indonesia which have been accredited by KAN or accredited by accreditation body which has signed Mutual Recognition Arrangement  (MRA) with KAN.   
 
Directorate General for Agricultural and Chemical Industry, Ministry of Industry is the 
institution that is responsible for the implemen tation of this decree and shall provide with 
technical guidance of the decree, which cover procedure of Product Certification and SNI 
Marking.  
Cements which are distributed in domestic market that originated domestically and 
imported shall meet requirements of these 6 (six) SNI of Cements. These standards specify 
for scope, term and definition, type, quality re quirements, sampling, testing method, testing 
acceptance, packaging and marking requirements (these standards available in Indonesian language).    
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:    
1. To protect the consumers 
2. To assure the quality of  those Cement products comply with SNI requirements 
3. To establish fair trade competitions. 
8. Relevant documents:    
Technical guidance (JUKNIS) Mandatory I ndonesia National Standard for Cement.              
9. 
 Proposed date of adoption            :  2 months after notification  
Proposed date of entry into force :  1 year after adoption   
10. Final date for comments:   60 days after notification 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:   
Centre for Cooperation on Standardization 
National Standardization Agency, Indonesia (BSN) Manggala Wanabakti Bld, Block IV, 4
th Floor 
Jl.Jend.Gatot Subroto, Senayan Jakarta 10270 – Indonesia 
Email        : Kerj_int@bsn.or.id 
Website    : http://www.bsn.or.or.id