ITU Regional Standardization Forum for Asia-Pacific (Jakarta, Indonesia, October 2015) “The Challenges of EMC Standard Development in Indonesia in the wake of its explosive ICT Growth” Atmadji W. Soewito Widyanto Adinugroho Indonesian TC

Outlines Introduction EMC Standardization Activities in Indonesia Challenges

Introduction: Indonesian ICT Landscape The explosive growth of ICT industry: The number of Internet users in Indonesia is expected to rocket from 40 million in 2011 to 175 million by 2016, accompanied by a boom in data connection subscribers growth from 52 million in 2011 to 167 million in 2016* Smartphone in 2014 has increased in total for 34% (57 million) from total mobile phone owner by 2014 ** Numerous Smartphone brands (>10) and model (>5 each) and accessories rush into the market without any serious concern on EMF issues * Indonesian Internet Governance Forum 2013 ** Nielsen Survey 2013

Introduction: Safety Concerns The need to protect the consumer as well as general public safety The need to harmonize the safety standards Circuit model for EMF Radiation measurement. Graph from :Presentation by: Karim Loukil & Kaïs Siala CERT, 2-6 April 2013,

Standardization Activities: Legal Framework Mandatory line: – Telecommunication Act and Government Regulation, mandates MCIT to conduct type approval on telecom equipment and regulate telecom equipment to ensure interoperability, safety, and prevent interference via technical regulation Voluntary line: – Standardization and Conformity Assessment Act, mandates National Standardization Body (BSN) to manage standardization (voluntary) and conformity assessment.

Standardization Activities: ICT Standardization Paths Mandatory line: – Organize and operate by MCIT – Outputs technical regulations for each specific equipment – Use ITU-T recommendations as references, but sometimes also use National Standards as references – Implemented in Type Approval Voluntary line: – Forms by National Standardization Body (BSN), named Technical Committee (for Telecommunications Standards) – Driven, funded, and operated by MCIT – The members consist of Regulators, Experts/Academics, Industries, and Consumer representatives – ISO/IEC based standards – Outputs Indonesian National Standards (SNI)

Standardization Activities: TC on EMC Works on EMC are done by EMC Working Groups of TC Currently only adopting ISO (CISPR) and IEC standards Standard adoption process starts with standard translation which can take up time for months for each standards Currently producing up to 10 identical standards per year for EMC in the form of SNI

Challenges: Speeding Up TC EMC standards are growing rapidly, mostly from ISO, IEC and ITU-T, therefor, we are experiencing difficulties in keeping up with all those standards (with current adoption rate) With business processes reengineering, we are able to improve standards adoption rate from 2 SNI (in 2011) to 10+ standards per year Online platform is proven to be effective in collaborative works, therefor we are developing and using online platform for standards adoption process since 2015 (early release, still under constant development)

Challenges: Standards Comprehension None of TC members nor it’s EMC Working Group member are involved in standards development process in ISO, IEC and ITU-T Difficulties in translating standards arise when trying to figure out the actual meaning behind some instructions or definitions in the original standards This problem alone can delay the standard adoption process due to extensive debates

Challenges: Contributing instead of Ratifying Minimum involvement in international SDO causes difficulties in keeping up with the rapidly growing EMC standards Instead of contributing, we end up with a never-ending works with standards adoption because the need to harmonize standards Problem arise when international standards cannot be implemented in Indonesia due to demographic issues In the end, Indonesia receive less benefits from harmonized standards

Challenges: EMC, area of multi interests National LevelInternational Level

Conclusions Due to explosive growth of ICT equipment, safety also becomes a primary concern in Indonesia as mandated by Telecommunication Act Development of EMC National Standards is done by EMC Working Group under TC 33-02, MCIT adopt published National Standards into technical regulations TC is improving internally, increasing standards adoption rate. Still, it needs to participate in International SDOs in order to take benefits of harmonized EMC standards. To do so, a program such as EMC standardization bootcamp is needed and requires assistance from International SDOs EMC is an area of multi-interest. With that in mind, it is compulsory to create something like joint technical committee for EMC between ISO, IEC and ITU-T, as we are doing in Indonesia between MCIT (TC 33-02) and Ministry of Industry (TC – TC for non-ICT household electronics)

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