Trade AI — Indonesia's Customs Pilot Flags Under- and Over-Invoicing at Tanjung Priok Port

Indonesia's Directorate General of Customs and Excise (Bea Cukai), part of the Ministry of Finance, faces persistent under-invoicing and over-invoicing fraud that importers use to evade duties or move value across borders undetected.

In December 2025, the Finance Minister launched a package of new digital customs tools at Tanjung Priok Port, Indonesia's busiest container port, including a container X-ray scanner with a radiation portal monitor, a Self-Service Report Mobile app, and Trade AI, which cross-references declared import prices against real-time market price data to estimate cargo-value shortfalls automatically.

Trade AI is designed to integrate with Bea Cukai's existing CEISA customs-processing platform, alongside an existing AI chat assistant (Tasya AI) already used for operational queries, aiming to catch price manipulation without manually re-checking every shipment.

The only confirmed, independently reported figure to date is a Rp1.2 billion (roughly US$76,000) increase in detected under-declared cargo value from the initial trial at Tanjung Priok, reported by the Finance Minister and covered by multiple Indonesian outlets.

Officials' stated ambition of reaching close to 100% detection accuracy within a year is a forward-looking target, not a measured result, and the system has not yet been evaluated or reported at any port beyond this single trial — a genuinely early-stage pilot whose modest confirmed impact should not be overstated.