ITU Regional Standardization Forum for Asia-Pacific
(Jakarta, Indonesia, 27-28 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 33-02
atmadji@rfd-tech.com, w.adinugroho@kominfo.go.id
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
• Circuit model for EMF Radiation measurement.
• Graph from :Presentation by: Karim Loukil & Kaïs Siala CERT, 2-6 April 2013,
• The need to protect the consumer as well as general public safety
• The need to harmonize the safety standards
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
33-02 (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 33-02 on EMC
• Works on EMC are done by EMC Working Groups
of TC 33-02
• 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 33-02
• 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 33-02 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 Level
International 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 33-02 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 31-01 – TC for non-ICT household electronics)
Thank You
atmadji@rfd-tech.com
w.adinugroho@kominfo.go.id