“BKI is not the extension of government hand, but we are service company which is operate based on government authorization and regulations,” said BKI’s President Director Rudiyanto on his speech at the opening ceremony of the company’s internal training in Arch Hotel Bogor, on 16 March 2015.

“We will miss the service value if we think that we are government authority, in fact our competitiveness as a service company is the service itself,” added Rudi.

BKI conducted this internal senior surveyor training in oerder to develop capability if its forefront service especially in statutory inspection field. The government, in this matter Ministry of Transportation has already revealed their strong intention to give more statutory duty assignment to BKI.

Ministry of Transportaion, Ignatius Jonan, in an occasion met with the BKI’s Board of Directors said that BKI should be ready if soon government delegates more ship statutory duty assignment. This addition is also intended to make BKI able to increase its competitiveness and then can be accepted as International Association of Classification Societies (IACS) member sooner.

Right now Indonesian government has fully authorized BKI to conduct survey and issue the permanent certificate for Load Line. For the certification of cargo gear equipment related to the issuance of the Cargo Gear Book, ISM Code for ship operation management system, ISPS Code for ship and port security management system, and the Condition Assessment Scheme (CAS) for inspection of the tanker ship are still partially authorized as the permanent certificate issued by the Directorate General of Sea Tansportation.

Beside to give further knowledge on how to conduct some more statutory duty inspection—which is intended to be delegated shortly—this training also proposed as an assessment tool for the surveyors’ knowledge.

“This training is also expected as an assessment tool for BKI surveyor, not to evaluate whether they fail or not but it’s likely to map the BKI’s surveyors capability,” added Rudiyanto.

One of the main agenda of the present Management is increasing the corporate competitiveness and service quality, therefore various kind and level of education and training programs are gradually arranged. BKI’s seriousness to develop human resources as its main capital among others disclosed by the declaration of BKI Academy as human resources training facility. **