Not Only on Land, the Government Will Also Regulate ODOL Limits at Sea

The Ministry of Trade is revising Regulation of the Minister of Trade No. 27 of 2024 on Inter-Island Trade. Odo R.M. Manuhutu, Deputy for Connectivity Coordination at the Coordinating Ministry for Infrastructure, stated that the revision aims to align the land and sea Inter-Island Goods Trade Notification (Pemberitahuan Perdagangan Antarpulau Barang – “PAB”) systems, which have so far operated independently without an integrated data system.

"To date, the land and sea PAB systems have operated separately. As a result, while cargo manifests are clearly recorded on ships, no such records are available on land. This is despite the fact that 90 percent of our logistics activities take place on land," he told Hukumonline.

Odo stated that the revised regulation will govern the permissible vehicle load limits. According to him, the absence of load limits for cargo transported through waterways is one of the factors contributing to accidents along sea routes. Accordingly, the draft regulation will harmonize weight standards and the interpretation of over dimension overloading (“ODOL”) requirements for both land and sea transportation.

Odo targets the completion of the revised regulation by December 2026, allowing transportation data from the Ministry of Trade to be directly integrated with data maintained by the Directorate General of Intermodal Integration at the Ministry of Transportation through the Goods Transport Document (Surat Muatan Barang – “Sumba”) system.