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March 28, 2008
Source:
CropBiotech Update
To benefit from the advances in
biotechnology, Indonesia's regulations should be set in place. A
study was conducted by Dr. Bahagiawati and Dr. Sutrisno from the
Indonesian Center for Agricultural Biotechnology and Genetic
Resources Research and Development (ICABIOGRAD) on the
"Application of Genetically Modified Crops: Status, Regulation
and Detection Method in Indonesia". The results published in the
Journal AgroBiogen, showed that Indonesia had several
regulations on application of transgenic crops such as
Government Regulation (GR) 21/2005; GR 69/1999 on labeling of
GMO products; and GR 28/2004 on GM food. However, according to
the authors, the implementation of GR 69/1999 and GR 28/2004 are
still not realized since there is no implementation guidance,
lack of laboratory facility, and capable human resources to
implement the rules.
In Indonesia, the labeling of GMO is still mandatory with the
threshold of 5.0. The authors also mentioned that until now,
Indonesia has only four GMO detection laboratories, of which two
are government laboratories (ICABIOGRAD, Ministry of Agriculture
and Food and Drugs Agency), and two private laboratories (PT.
Saraswanti and Atmajaya University). The authors further
recommended that Indonesia needs to have a biosafety framework,
enhanced facility and human resources to assess the existence of
GMO in any food materials.
See more details at:
http://www.indobiogen.or.id/agrobiogen.php or contact the
authors for more information at
s.trisno@indo.net.id,
bahagiawati@indo.net.id,
or Dewi Suryani of IndoBIC at
dewisuryani@biotrop.org
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