. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/IDN/39 
17 June 2010  
 (10-3291) 
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 (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  Directorate General for Metal, Machinery, Textile and Multifarious 
Industries, Ministry of Industry  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be  indicated if different from above :   
Directorate for Machine Industries, Ministry of Industry 
Jl. Jend. Gatot Subroto, kav.52-53, 11th  floor Jakarta 12950 – Indonesia Telephone:  +(62-21) 5252185  
Facsimile:  +(62-21) 5252185 
E-mail:  dirmes@depperin.go.id     Website:  http://www.depperin.go.id
 
 
Center for Cooperation on Standardization 
National Standardization Agency, Indonesia (BSN) 
Manggala Wanabakti Bld, Block IV, 4th floor 
Jl. Jend. Gatot Subroto, Senayan Jakarta 10270 – Indonesia Telephone:  +(62-21) 5747043, 5747044 Facsimile:  +(62-21) 5747045 
E-mail:  tbt.indonesia@gmail.com; tbt.indonesia@bsn.or.id  
Website:  http://www.bsn.go.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 applicab le, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in  addition, where applicable):  Totalizing water meters 
HS 9028.20.10.00. 
5. Title, number of pages and langua ge(s) of the notified document:  Draft decree of 
Ministry of Industry on Mandatory Indonesia National Standard for SNI 2547:2008 Totalizing water meters.     G/TBT/N/IDN/39 
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  6. Description of content:  This draft Decree states that all Totalizing water meters 
appliances products produced within the country  and imported, distributed and marketed in 
the country shall fulfil SNI requirements.  Th e producer and or importers therefore shall 
have a product certificate for the use of SNI Ma rking and comply with the requirements of 
SNI.  
The Product Certificate on SNI Marking shall be  issued by a Product Certification Body 
which has been appointed by the  Minister  of Industry through: 
a. Testing of the conformity of the products  quality against SNI 2547:2008 or its revision; 
b. Audit on the implementation of the Quality Management System (QMS) SNI ISO 
9001:2008 or its revision; or other r ecognized Quality Management system. 
The testing shall be carried out by testing laboratories which have been appointed by 
Minister of Industry. Directorate General or  Metal, Machinery, Textile and Multifarious 
Industries, Ministry of Industry is the institu tion that is responsible for the implementation 
of this decree and shall provide a technical guidance of the decree, which covers Procedure 
of Product Certification and SNI Marking. 
Totalizing water meters which are distribut ed in domestic market that originated 
domestically and imported shall m eet the requirements which consist in the standard of SNI 
2547:2008 Totalizing water meters.  This standard specifies the scope, term and definition, 
type, quality requirements, sampling, tes ting methods, testing acceptance, marking 
requirement  and packaging (this standard is  available in Indonesian language).    
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:   
1. To protect the consumers; 
2. To increase the quality of totalizing water meters product; 
3. To establish fair trade competitions.  
8. Relevant documents:   Technical Guidance for application/implementation of Indonesia 
National Standard for totalizing water meters.   
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:      2 months after notification 
  6 months after adoption 
10. Final date for comments:  60 days after notification 
11. Text available from: National enquiry po int [  ], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:    
Center for Cooperation on Standardization 
National Standardization Agency, Indonesia (BSN) Manggala Wanabakti Bld, Block IV, 4th floor Jl. Jend. Gatot Subroto, Senayan 
Jakarta 10270 – Indonesia 
Telephone:  +(62-21) 5747043, 5747044 Facsimile:  +(62-21) 5747045 E-mail:  tbt.indonesia@bsn.or.id;  tbt.indonesia@gmail.com   
Website:  http://www.bsn.go.id
 
And can also be downloaded here: 
http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2010/tbt/idn/10_2365_00_x.pdf