BPOM

History of BPOM

Technology advancement has brought a fast and significant changes on the pharmaceutical, Indonesian traditional medicine, food, cosmetic, and medical device industries. Those industries are able to produce a large-scale of products in wide range

The product consumption tends to be increased in line with the change of community life style, including their consumptive behavior. Meanwhile the community capacity is not yet appropriate to do selection and use the products in rational and safe way. In the other hand, aggressive promotion is affecting consumers more overuse and not rational.

Indonesia should have an effective and efficient Drug and Food Control System (DFCS) with capability to detect, prevent and control such products in order to protect the consumers security and health in the country and overseas. Therefore, National Agency of Drug and Food Control (NA-DFC) is established with a national and international networking, authority to conduct law enforcement and highly credible professionalism. The National Agency of Drug and Food Control (NA-DFC) is a non departmental government institution based on Presidential Decree No. 166 in the year 2000 which is responsible directly to the President for its operation and build policy coordination with the Minister of Health and Social Welfare.

BPOM Activities:

• Legislation, regulation and standardization;
• Licensing and certification of pharmaceutical industries based on Good Manufacturing Practices;
• Pre-market evaluation of products;
• Post-marketing vigilance including product sampling and laboratory testing, inspection of production and distribution facilities, investigation and law enforcement;
• Pre-audit and post-audit of product advertisement and promotion;
• Research on drug and food policies implementation;
• Public communication, information and education including public warning.

Strength
-Starting to fix their image
-The one & only guider and gatekeeper for society to knom whether the produts are good or bad
-Non departmental government institution but with fully support from president and minister of health Weakness
-Limited and unprofessional human resources and facilities
-Not fully transparant with all their system to society
-Careless.They passed a lot of foods that was unsafe to consumed to the market
-Less information and education to the public
Opportunity
-Make public service advertisement
-Training all the employees and re-new the facilities Threats
-The bad opinion from the public
-Overload products from China that makes it hard to filter it one by one
-it’s hard to educate people that don’t want to be.
What we can do to improve the reputation?
Increase the quality of human resources by training.Try to be more communicative and transparant to society.Make survey to know what exactly people opinion,hoped,and thought for BPOM to get better in future.We are going to communicate these new strategies to the target public by public service advertisement through television and printed media


Objectives of BPOM:.



To protect the public health from the risk of marketed therapeutic products, traditional medicines, complementary products and cosmetic which do not meet quality, safety and efficacy requirements, as well as food products which are not safe and not appropriate to be consumed.
To protect the public health from the abuse and missuse of narcotics, psychotropics and addictives as well as the risk of hazardous products and substances use.
To develop the Indonesian Traditional Medicines with scientifically reliable quality, safety and effectiveness as well as being used to improve public health.
Expand access drug to society with high quality and reachable price.

BPOM Management