Case study of Organic Certification System in Indonesia
National Standardization Agency (Badan Akreditasi Nasional) defines certification as a procedure where government certification agent, private certification which is officially acknowledged by government gives a written guarantee or in form of continuous inspection, quality control system and final check of one product. Those activities are aimed to show and to inform that the process of vegetable production or quality system has been conducted.
Certification has some objectives as follows based Indonesian National Standard (Standar Nasional Indonesia), 2002:
1.To ensure that all processes in preparation, production, storage, delivery and marketing can meet the Indonesian standard for organic products.
2.To promote organic agricultural commodities among producers and consumers particularly regarding food safety and sustainable agriculture.
3.To help producers understands more about international requirements and standards in exports of organic products and be competitive.
4.To maintain and enhance organic farm system at every area in Indonesia, so as to contribute to local and global ecology preservation.
5.To provide international guidance for organic farm production system in order to facilitate recognition of national system for the purpose of import.
National Standardization Agency (Badan Akreditasi Nasional) defines certification as a procedure where government certification agent, private certification which is officially acknowledged by government gives a written guarantee or in form of continuous inspection, quality control system and final check of one product. Those activities are aimed to show and to inform that the process of vegetable production or quality system has been conducted. Certification has some objectives as follows based Indonesian National Standard (Standar Nasional Indonesia), 2002:
1.To ensure that all processes in preparation, production, storage, delivery and marketing can meet the Indonesian standard for organic products.
2.To promote organic agricultural commodities among producers and consumers particularly regarding food safety and sustainable agriculture.
3.To help producers understands more about international requirements and standards in exports of organic products and be competitive.
4.To maintain and enhance organic farm system at every area in Indonesia, so as to contribute to local and global ecology preservation.
5.To provide international guidance for organic farm production system in order to facilitate recognition of national system for the purpose of import.
In Indonesia, in order to receive organic certification, National Standardization Agency decided to elaborate what the organic vegetable mean is so that there is basic standard or guide about organic vegetables. NSA defines organic vegetable as follows:
“Vegetable produced organically and continuously by prioritizing health and productivity of agro-ecosystem included bio-diversity, biological cycle and biological activities of soil naturally in order to produce good qualified products”. (translated by the author, SNI; 2002)
Certification is the most important key-factor for developing organic agriculture because it is needed to expand market of organic products produced by the farmers at present. Therefore, it is necessary to encourage some efforts to increase the number of officially acknowledged and entitled certification agent which can certificate organic products.
Organic foods or products should be cultivated on the land which has been already certified. Before receiving permission to name the products as organic foods, the farmers usually are allowed to put the label named transitional foods. Transitional means food products produced by plants which are cultivated without either synthetic chemical pesticides or fertilizers.
If the food products coming from or produced on any kind of land but without using pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides can be called free pesticides food. However, in this case there is any possibility that the cultivated land had been fertilized with chemical fertilizer. This category is the lowest level called integrated pest management which means the products are cultivated or produced by using very little amount of synthetic pesticides.
“Vegetable produced organically and continuously by prioritizing health and productivity of agro-ecosystem included bio-diversity, biological cycle and biological activities of soil naturally in order to produce good qualified products”. (translated by the author, SNI; 2002)
Certification is the most important key-factor for developing organic agriculture because it is needed to expand market of organic products produced by the farmers at present. Therefore, it is necessary to encourage some efforts to increase the number of officially acknowledged and entitled certification agent which can certificate organic products.
Organic foods or products should be cultivated on the land which has been already certified. Before receiving permission to name the products as organic foods, the farmers usually are allowed to put the label named transitional foods. Transitional means food products produced by plants which are cultivated without either synthetic chemical pesticides or fertilizers.
If the food products coming from or produced on any kind of land but without using pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides can be called free pesticides food. However, in this case there is any possibility that the cultivated land had been fertilized with chemical fertilizer. This category is the lowest level called integrated pest management which means the products are cultivated or produced by using very little amount of synthetic pesticides.
Procedure of certification is conducted based on standards which is applied at independent certification agent. The applied standards are different between each agent. Japan has Japan Agricultural Standard (JAS), Australia has National Association Sustainable Agriculture Australia (NASAA), Thailand has Organic Agriculture Certification Thailand (ACT), China has Organic Food Development Center (OFDC), and Indonesia has Board of Indonesia Organic Certification (Bio-Cert).
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