Event Reports

On 27 March, EuroCham Healthcare Working Group attended a coordination meeting by KADIN on the formation of a task force to provide a review, analysis, and recommendation to the Ministry of Industry on the local content calculation of medical devices as governed under the Minister of Industry Regulation No. 31 of 2022 on Provisions and Procedures for Calculating Local Content Value for Medical Devices and In Vitro Diagnostic.

The task force consists of representatives from KADIN, Gakeslab, HIPELKI, ASPAKI, APACMed, US-ABC, and AmCham. EuroCham Indonesia was represented by Efraim Ariesandy, Deputy Head of the Healthcare Working Group and Head of Market Access at Fresenius Medical Care Indonesia.

On the 27th of March, EuroCham was honored to be invited by the tax committee from the Jakarta Japan Club (JJC) on this year's tax issue and further collaboration between the group.

The meeting was led by Tadahiko Onaka (Chairman Tax Committee and CFO of PT Toyota Tsusho Indonesia) and Yamamoto Waka (Vice Chairman and Finance Director at PT Marubeni Indonesia). The session was attended by EuroCham Working Group Head Omar Abdulkadir (Taxation Service Advisor at PwC) and AmCham Tax Committee Brian Arnold (Technical Advisor and Partner at PwC Indonesia) and Benjamin Koesmoeljana (International Tax and Transaction Services Partner at EY Indonesia).

We would like to thank JJC for inviting us to an insightful discussion and we look forward to many more collaborations!