About 80 pct Indonesian pharmacies apply good production standards

We are hoping all pharmaceutical industries in Indonesia will already be applying the CPOB standards this year, though our full compliance target time is 2008," she said.

Husniah said overall, Indonesian pharmaceutical industries had made significant progress in preparing themselves to face the ASEAN free trade era in 2009.

"They have made good progress. We will use the remaining one year to encourage a number of pharmacies which have not yet complied with the CPOB standards," she said.