DAMPAK POSITIF PEMBENTUKAN UNIT METROLOGI LEGAL DI KABUPATEN/KOTA TERHADAP PERLINDUNGAN KONSUMEN DAN PERTUMBUHAN EKONOMI

Abstract

Measurements in related to public have a significant impact on the social and economic of a society. In general, three major issues were obtained from this study, firstly, the establishment of local verification offices at city/municipal level seem to boost the improvement of verification performance. Second, the verification performance is likely to have a positive impact on increasing consumer confidence in related to the use of measuring instruments. This shows that the service done by local verification offices tends to have a positive impact on consumer protection. Third, the improvement in verification performance of local verification offices is likely to have a positive effect on increasing the level of consumer consumption. This shows that the efforts of the Ministry of Trade through the Directorate General of Consumer Protection and Trade Compliance to increase the establishment of local verification offices have an influence on economic growth with the level of consumer consumption as an indicator.

This paper describes the impact of the strategy undertaken by the Directorate General of Consumer Protection and Trade Compliance of the Ministry of Trade to provide consumer protection and increase economic growth through increasing consumer confidence in transactions. Based on the impact analysis, it is hoped that the strategies that have been carried out can be used as the basis for planning and evaluation so that existing strategies can continue to be developed to answer specific needs for consumers to become more empowered and for business to be more responsible for meeting requirements. Furthermore, it can be used to respond to various problems that arise due to technological advances, changes in the government system, and others