Imported Household Product Registration in Indonesia Review by
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Based on this regulation, household product (HHP) includes the equipment, materials, or mixture of material for the maintenance and treatment of human health, control of pet fleas, household and locations.
Household product in Indonesia is categorized in 3 classes based on its risk level as below:
This class includes household product which not cause any serious effect such as irritation, corrosive and carcinogenic. Household products under class I e.g. cotton and tissue. The evaluation process would take about 45 working days exclude period for determining the class.
Includes household product which cause irritation, corrosive but doesn’t cause serious effect like carcinogenic. Before distributing, the product should be registered by enclosing the result of laboratory test and will take approximately 80 working days. Products which are categorized under class II such as detergent and alcohol.
This class includes household product which contains pesticides such as repellent and it can cause serious effect like carcinogenic. Along with registration, applicant should enclosed result of laboratory test and should already acquire confirmation from Pesticide Commission under Ministry of Agriculture. The registration will take about 100 working days.
However, to be able register HHP in another mean to obtain the marketing license (izin edar), firstly manufacturer or appointed distributor should have HHP distributor license (izin penyalur PKRT). Marketing license is the license for company which will become the importer as well as distributor for this HHP within the territory of Indonesia based on the evaluation on the quality, safety and efficacy from evaluation team and expert team.
For possessing the marketing license, the company should follow criteria as below:
- Safety and Efficacy of HHP are proven by using non prohibited materials and not exceeding the determined content limit in accordance with the regulation and/or clinical data or other data that are needed.
- Quality, based on company good manufacturing practice and using materials with appropriate specification and complies with the determined requirements shown by the production certificate.
#1 Who are allowed to obtain marketing license?
- HHP importer which already have appointment from the company or business representative that has the power as sole agent by indicating the type of product of agent and acknowledged by the local representative of the Indonesia with term of appointment minimum 2 years.
- Non sole agent but have power attorney to register the HHP from the HHP production company or from the responsible company overseas.
- Company which have production certificate to carry out the reassembling/repacking of imported products.
#2 How to Obtain Marketing License (Izin Edar)?
Process of obtaining marketing license would be divided into 2 steps:
- Step of determining the class of household product; this step consist of class verification process and payment for non-tax state revenue (PNBP) which will take approximately 17 working days.
- Evaluation process; consists of evaluation and verification of safety requirements, efficacy and quality. After going through evaluation process, there may be 3 results such as approval for marketing license, notification for required additional data or rejection letter.
#3 What Documents Should be Prepared?
Required documents for registering imported HHP as below:
- Filled application form
- Letter of Appointment
- Certificate of Free Sale (CFS)
- Certificate of ISO 9001
- Business License and tax ID
- Statement letter of willingness to trasnfer distributor rights if there is another more eligible distributor
- Statement letter of willingnes to meet safety requirements
- Detail ingredients and production process
- Specification of raw materials and packaging
- Specification of stability studies
- Using instruction
Besides required documents above, importer/distributor should have concern on labelling of HHP. Labelling might be in the form of pictures, colors, writing which affixed on the package. The labelling at least contains information of product name/trade name, name and address of manufacturer or importer, active ingredients and concentration of HHP product, instruction of use, warning in Indonesian language, expiration date, batch number, production code.
Selected clients for Product Registration Services:
If you need further detail information to register your HHP product in Indonesia, feel free to contact Cekindo and we will provide you all required information and assist you during HHP registration process.
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Dear all,
I would like to know if it is necessary also to register raw material used on the HHP products or only the final composition?
Is there a positive list of raw materials that can be used on HHP according to Indonesian regulations?
Thanks
Best regards
Dear Marcia Nossig,
Our sincere apology for delayed response.
Following your inquiry, we noted that you would like to know more about register product prior to distribute in Indonesia.
For your consideration, Cekindo have wide experiences in assisting our clients from various industries to establish their company in Indonesia and assist them in the registering their products, includes medical device, household products to the Ministry of Health (MoH). However, please kindly provide us more details about the products which you want to register:
1. This HHP product is Household Product
2. Details of products
With regards to your question, we need to know more about details of product and from that we can suggest whether raw material (not) need to be registered at MoH. Kindly provide us more information, so we could suggest advice that match your needs.
Thank you and looking forward to hear from you
Libor Uhlík
Dear all,
We are Japanese baby products manufacturer but our plant is in China.
We would like to know how can we get below required documents for registering imported HHP.
•Letter of Appointment
•Certificate of Free Sale (CFS)
Please kindly advise.
Dear Akiyo,
Thank you for contacting Cekindo
Cekindo is a market entry consulting firm based in Jakarta. Our company provides consulting services to help foreign companies from various industries to expand into the Indonesian market. We have experiences in assisting the client in establishing the company as well as providing other management services such as visa for a foreigner, payroll, accounting, tax, and etc. Our main activities are:
1. Business set up
2. Business process outsourcing
3. Local representation
Following your inquiry, we noted that you register your product in Indonesia.
As an initial stage, we would like to clarify from your side as follow:
1. Do you have a potential distributor in Indonesia whom you would like to be the license holder of your product?
2. How many products would you like to register? If possible, please provide name, quantity and HS Code of the product (in order for us to check if there are any restrictions.)
For more information, you can send email to info@cekindo.com