About three weeks after returning from a U.S. government-sponsored trade mission to southeast Asia, American Council of Engineering Companies officials who took part in the mission got some good news. ACEC says the U.S. embassy in Jakarta on Dec. 2 notified it that the government of Indonesia had revoked a regulation that ACEC viewed as a roadblock for firms seeking to enter or continue to work in that country.
During the Nov. 3-8 trade mission, led by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, ACEC's current chair, Mitchel Simpler, and its 2018-2019 chair, Manish Kothari, pushed for a change in the Indonesian regulation.