EMC Regulation in Infrastructure Assurance (IAS) Telkom Indonesia

Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) can be considered as the ability of the electromagnetic apparatus to function satisfactorily without interfering the others or being interfered by the others. Nowadays, Indonesian government have a big concern about the conformity of electromagnetic products to corresponding EMC standards. The EMC conformity becomes the main part of quality assurance and safety of products in Telkom Indonesia. This paper presents the EMC conformity of products in Telkom Indonesia from regulation and technical point of view. We conducted survey on the quo-vadis of EMC regulation in the country by communicating with some Quality Assurance laboratory. At the same time, we investigated the EMC conformity of some telecommunication products to find their quality by conducting EMC testing on them including radiated and conducted emission test. From our investigation it is realized that some product was not yet comply compare to the newest standard of EMC, especially CISPR 32. Conformity of EMC is mandatory in Telkom Indonesia's standard. Therefore EMC conformity is mandatory for products manufactured or imported for deployment in Telkom's operation. The biggest concern is about health issue from radio transmission coming from its radiated interference, hence most part of Telkom's apparatus was used radio frequency. Moreover, EMC testing showed that the products under testing are mostly conforming to EMC standards.