A television entering Indonesia has to clear two separate things. One is the SNI mandatory certification run by the Ministry of Industry, which governs safety. The other is the radio equipment licence run by the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs — KOMDIGI — because a set with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or a digital tuner needs a second certificate. The two authorities issue their own documents and neither stands in for the other.
Agency names have changed fast, so do not quote the old ones in your paperwork. KOMDIGI Regulation No. 1 of 2025 took effect on 10 January 2025; the former Directorate General of Posts and Information Resources and Equipment (SDPPI) was renamed the Directorate General of Digital Infrastructure (DJID). From 20 January, newly issued certificates switched to the new mark and numbering format, while old certificates remain valid. Wordings vary across sources, so anchor your documents to the official announcement.
On the SNI side the work splits five ways: BSN sets the standards, the Ministry of Industry manages the catalogue, KAN only accredits, the accredited LSPro audits and issues the certificate, and the laboratory produces the test report.
The current basis is Ministry of Industry Regulation No. 75 of 2024, published on 13 November 2024 and effective on 2 June 2025, replacing the earlier Regulation No. 15 of 2018. Audio-video products uniformly fall under SNI IEC 62368-1:2014, with the power range stated as single-phase AC or DC not exceeding 250 volts.
The television HS codes are ex.8528.72.91, ex.8528.72.92 and ex.8528.72.99. The same batch of the catalogue also covers set-top boxes, active speakers, disc players and in-car AV. On size, stop guessing: LCD and CRT televisions are capped at a maximum of 55 inches, while OLED, QLED, QNED and Mini LED new-display types are outside that cap. The "under 42 inches" claim circulating online is outdated.
The SNI system originally had two routes: the batch-based Type 1b and the full-process Type 5. Regulation No. 75 restricts Type 1b to micro-enterprises, judged by the two tests in the Indonesian SME law (Law No. 20 of 2008) — net assets and annual turnover, both measured in rupiah against the current regulation's thresholds. Medium and larger manufacturers take Type 5, with product testing, document review, initial factory audit and ongoing periodic surveillance, none of it skipped.
A Type 5 SPPT SNI certificate is valid for four years, and within those four years you pass a surveillance audit every year. Market spot-checks can pull the certificate status down, and serious cases lead to recall. This logic is nothing like China's CCC, so do not map old experience onto it.
An overseas factory cannot be the applicant itself. It must appoint a company registered in Indonesia as its representative, and that representative needs a trademark registration — already certified or under application both count. The representative must hold a local warehouse, required to be in the same or a neighbouring regency or city as the declared location; direct port-to-door delivery is not an accepted route.
Applications are submitted uniformly through the Ministry of Industry's SIINAS system online; offline channels are no longer accepted. The flow is: sign the tripartite agreement, arrange the factory audit with on-site sampling, send samples to a KAN-accredited laboratory for safety and EMC testing, then issue the certificate and collect the coded SPPT certificate on SIINAS.
The grid is 230 volts, 50 hertz. Products designed years ago around 220 volts need their nameplate and power board re-aligned. Manuals and nameplates are Indonesian-first; English is not an accepted substitute, and this is the item that most often stalls the documentation stage. Packaging carries the marks and codes per the current requirement.
The radio side is counted separately. Models with Wi-Fi or Bluetooth need the wireless module cleared through KOMDIGI's equipment licence, with frequencies and limits following Indonesia's local planning — not a perfect match with CE or FCC band splits. Sets doing terrestrial digital TV must also align to the DVB-T2 system.
From preparation to certificate, three to six months is a safe estimate; two to three months usually only covers the testing. The variables cluster in three places: trademark and local representative setup, factory-audit scheduling (the auditor flies on-site, travel borne by the applicant), and rework rounds. Start a quarter ahead of the peak season.
The stock side has a buffer: audio-video products made domestically or imported before the regulation took effect get up to one year of distribution from the enforcement date. Clearing old models needs to hit that window.
For projects of this kind, the SNI and KOMDIGI wireless timelines are merged onto one chart — trademark, representative and warehouse move first, testing schedules press behind, which can save a whole round.
For products pursuing multiple market access at once, BlueAsia's one-stop testing and certification keeps the safety and wireless RF reports managed per target country; do not expect one report to sweep Southeast Asia, because the technical clauses differ meaningfully between markets.
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