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Kemenhub And Kemenkeu Agree On Collaboration For Exchange Of Maritime Transportation Data

The Ministry of Transportation and the Ministry of Finance have signed an agreement on cooperation regarding the exchange and utilization of data or information to enhance supervision in the maritime transportation sector. This cooperation is carried out in the interest of tax supervision of business actors in that sector.

The signing was done by the Director General of Sea Transportation Antoni Arif Priadi and the Director General of Tax Suryo Utomo, and witnessed directly by the Minister of Transportation Budi Karya Sumadi, at the Ministry of Transportation office in Jakarta, on Friday (5/31).

"I think this agreement is very valuable. The Ministry of Finance has a difficult task of collecting taxes, and all of that is returned to the people, one of which is through various developments carried out by the Ministry of Transportation. We want to be an institution with integrity by recording all movements of business actors in the maritime transportation sector," said the Minister in his speech.

This agreement is aimed at optimizing tax revenue and implementing policies in the field of development, control, and supervision of businesses using maritime transportation. In the future, the objects of cooperation in this agreement will include electronic data available in databases, non-electronic data, and written information.

In its implementation, the exchange of data and information regarding maritime transportation businesses is done online and host to host or server-to-server systems connected directly between the Ministry of Transportation and the Ministry of Finance. The duration of this agreement is 5 years from the signing date, or from 2024 to 2029. Previously, this agreement was also conducted in 2019 and ended in 2024.

On this occasion, the Minister hopes that the Ministry of Finance can also support the procurement of AIS or Automatic Identification System throughout Indonesia. AIS is an automated system used by ships and Vessel Traffic Services (VTS) to provide safe and intelligent information about maritime traffic. Currently, not all Indonesian waters are equipped with AIS systems.

"If we look at Kalimantan, Batam, and Sulawesi, there are still a number of unmonitored ships, even though ships are supposed to have AIS. If we can monitor them, automatically we can accurately calculate the number of moving ships and the amount of taxable goods," explained the Minister of Transportation.

Maritime transportation service providers have a significant number and are spread across the entire Indonesian territory. This is considering that Indonesian waters cover 2/3 of the country's total area. With the large number of service companies, the Indonesian economy continues to grow and develop.