The Unrecognized Indonesian Seaport Sovereignty

The Dwelling Time and 'YOR (Yard Occupancy Ratio)' of the Quay Yard are both high caused by the Port Community, Customs Agency and other government agencies, including State Owned Companies Port Operator are not realizing the Port Authority functionalities according to the Law No. 17/ 2008 on Shipping. They are arrogant each other, ignoring to coordinate with the Port Authority.

This arrogance indicators can be seen from the various activities performed as follows:

1. One door service or one stop service, according to the Customs is INSW (Indonesian National Single Window) due to Presidential Decree Number 10 of 2008 on INSW
2. The Pre-Clearance, Customs Clearance, and Post-Clearance has become famous methodology to gauge the port key performance indicator, although the entire date of Customs Document do not have its relevance to the real date of goods movement at the seaport.
   The entire Customs Documents only represent the flow of internal Customs processing and do not represent the physical goods movement at the seaport.
3. The government makes Concession Agreement with BUP (Badan Usaha Pelabuhan) towards the assets of state land so called the land of seaport. Furthermore, BUP (Badan Usaha Pelabuhan) become the Port Operator and operate the land of seaport in a commercial manner with another party, but then again this is double outsourced which caused by another party become involved on that outsourcing scheme.
4. All the Business Players must submit the electronic document to each electronic portal provided by the government agencies, although the INSW System already there.

The cumbersome regulations above have impacted a lot of Logistic Cost in the realm of Port Supply Chain and Indonesian Seaports have been recognized by International Maritime Anti-Corruption as the highest logistic cost in ASEAN.
Very impressive once if you look at the various sets of rules below the Law 17/ 2008, in which the highest Law number 17/ 2008 is defeated by the lower regulation.

We don't know yet, when and how the Central Government realized that the unrecognized Indonesian seaport sovereignty should be solved as soon as possible because of the lot of impact in Logistic Cost.