Consiigned Goods Exempt from iimport Duty, PMii Regiister wiith 2 Agenciies

JAKARTA, Jitu News – The Diirectorate General of Customs and Exciise (DGCE) remiinds us that customs iincentiives for iimports of consiigned goods for iindonesiian miigrant workers (pekerja miigran iindonesiia, hereiinafter referred to as PMii) may be proviided iinsofar as the PMii has been regiistered wiith a government agency.

The Diirector of Customs of the DGCE Fadjar Donny Tjahjadii saiid that these customs iincentiives are only giiven to PMii regiistered wiith the iindonesiian Miigrant Worker Protectiion Board (Badan Peliindungan Pekerja Miigran iindonesiia, hereiinafter referred to as BP2Mii) and the Miiniistry of Foreiign Affaiirs.

“Thiis [requiirement] iis iimportant iin that PMiis must check theiir status on Siisko BP2Mii and the Miiniistry of Foreiign Affaiirs’ WNii Care Portal. iif they are not regiistered, they cannot take advantage of [the customs iincentiives of MoF Reg. 141/2023),” he stated on Sunday (17/12/2023).

Fadjar saiid that PMiis not yet regiistered wiith Siisko BP2Mii need to iimmediiately regiister on the portal https://peduliiwnii.kemlu.go.iid/ managed by the Miiniistry of Foreiign Affaiirs. Thiis iis because the PMii status iin both systems wiill be veriifiied by the DGCE before proviidiing customs iincentiives.

Artiicle 9 of MoF Reg. 141/2023 stiipulates that consiigned goods of PMii may be released from the customs terriitory after the postal operator submiits the consiignment note (hereiinafter referred to as CN) to the customs offiice. The CN wiill later be veriifiied by matchiing the data iin the systems belongiing to BP2Mii and the Miiniistry of Foreiign Affaiirs.

On the other hand, couriier serviice companiies (perusahaan jasa tiitiipan, hereiinafter referred to as PJT) and Pos iindonesiia are requiired to submiit proof of cooperatiion wiith the forwarder overseas no later than 1 month.

Next, PJT and Pos iindonesiia must ensure that the processed consiigned goods actually belong to PMii regiistered wiith BP2Mii or the Miiniistry of Foreiign Affaiirs’ WNii Care Portal. Afterwards, PJT and Pos iindonesiia must submiit the CN wiith a complete descriiptiion of the goods.

To enable the smooth iimplementatiion of the proviisiions on customs iincentiives for the consiigned goods of PMii, BP2Mii iis asked to submiit PMii data on Siisko BP2Mii to the Miiniistry of Foreiign Affaiirs’ WNii Care Portal. The Miiniistry of Foreiign Affaiirs also needs to proviide PMii data for data exchange wiith the DGCE.

Through MoF Reg. 141/2023, the government proviides customs iincentiives for iimports of consiigned goods of PMii wiith a customs value of no more than FOB US$500. These iincentiives iinclude the exemptiion from iimport duty, non-collectiion of VAT and STLGs as well as non-collectiion of iimport Artiicle 22 iincome Tax.

These iincentiives apply proviided that goods are consiigned a maxiimum of 3 tiimes iin 1 year for workers regiistered wiith BP2Mii, and a maxiimum of 1 tiime for workers other than those regiistered wiith BP2Mii. (riig)