In order to facilitate the domestic medical device industry to increase the value of TKDN on Thursday, May 25, 2023, the Directorate of Pharmaceutical Security and Medical Devices of the Directorate General of Pharmacology held a "TKDN Certification Assistance Workshop in the context of Implementing the Domestic Medical Device TKDN Regulation" in Jakarta.

In his opening remarks, Director of Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Resilience, Roy Himawan said that this meeting is expected to provide useful results so as to encourage and facilitate the domestic medical device industry to increase the TKDN value of products and the quality of medical devices, and ultimately increase the use and purchase of domestic medical devices in the implementation of government procurement of goods / services.

"Ministry of Health has also conducted regular monitoring of the number of medical device products certified with TKDN above 50%. Based on e-catalog data, until April 5, 2023, there have been 5,386 (14.37%) e-catalog medical device products that have TKDN certificates above 50%," said Himawan.

Himawan added that the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Industry are synergizing to continue to increase the number and types of domestic medical devices including the increase in domestic medical devices that are TKDN certified. Thus, the development of the medical device industry must continue to be encouraged to meet the needs of domestic medical devices.

This workshop was attended by representatives of business actors in the field of medical devices and was also filled by exposure to resource persons from the Ministry of Industry who presented material related to "Policy on the Application of TKDN Value in Medical Device Products" and resource persons from PT Surveyor Indonesia who presented material related to "Procedures for Calculating TKDN for Medical Devices Products". During the meeting, interactive discussions were held, one of which was related to input on the validity period of the TKDN certificate which was deemed necessary to be adjusted to the validity period of the medical device distribution permit.