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PAPUA Presented in Manila, October 17th, 2005 Indonesia is the world’s largest archipelago : 5 major islands and about 30 smaller groups total number of islands : 17,500 sea area : 1.9 million sq km Population : more than 200 million people from over 300 distinct ethnic groups (with different dialects) The territory of the Republic of Indonesia stretches from 608’ north latitude to 1115’ south latitude and from 9445’ to 14105’ east longitude. It lies between two oceans, the Pacific and the Indian and bridges two continents Asia and Australia. Indonesia is an importer country for chemicals and in another side also act as exporter for consumer product that contains chemicals to be continue… Because of its geography, most of Indonesian people work as farmer. This situation affects the total use of pesticide from year to year. Along with technology innovation and the global world that happen in today world, the production, export/import and distribution of chemicals, and also the use of chemicals in consumer product in Indonesia are significantly increase. The enormous number of Indonesian population makes Indonesia becomes a good market for all product consumer including the ones which contain chemicals. Indonesia Participation on International Forum Concerning Chemicals 1. IFCS 2. POPs 3. PIC 4. WSSD Year Activities 2003 Developing work plan for GHS implementation in Indonesia by 2008 : conduct by Forkonas (aka Indonesian IFCS) GHS Socialization with target audiences such as government, industry, importer, wholesaler and retailer, in local or national scope : conduct by NADFC and KNRCI 2004 GHS Socialization with target audiences such as government, industry, importer, wholesaler and retailer, in local or national scope : conduct by NADFC and Ministry of Industry Trainer of Trainee about GHS : conduct by KNRCI – Jetro/AOTS. This training consist of 3 level : elementary level, intermediate level and advance level. Training “A glance of GHS” : conduct by NADFC in 5 provinces @ 25 people Seminar about GHS : conduct by KNRCI Participants : 124 people Translating the GHS purple book (still in progress) : conduct by NADFC 2005 Undertake the phase 1 of GHS-UNITAR Project: situation analysis and gap analysis GHS Socialization with target audiences such as government, industry, importer, wholesaler and retailer, in local or national scope : conduct by NADFC and Ministry of Industry Trainer of Trainee about GHS : conduct by KNRCI – Jetro/AOTS. This training consist of 3 level : elementary level, intermediate level and advance level. Until now Indonesia already have : 39 people in elementary level, 35 people in intermediate level 12 people in advance level. 2005 Training “A glance of GHS” : conduct by NADFC in 5 provinces @ 25 people Developing draft of GHS short guidance in Indonesian Language : conduct by NADFC (still in progress) Developing draft of booklet about GHS : conduct by NADFC Indonesia acknowledge the importance of harmonizing the chemicals classification and Labelling and therefore agree to implement GHS by 2008 with consideration on Indonesia situation 1. Revision of legal infrastructure 2. Developing National GHS implementation strategy 3. Increasing the number of trainings about GHS 4. Increasing the GHS Socialization activities, in number and scope of target groups