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In 2015, the Indonesian government issued the Government Regulation on the Safety and Security of Transport of Radioactive Materials (GR 58/2015), which was developed based on the SSR 6/2012. Since then, this IAEA safety standard has been revised into SSR 6 rev.1 in 2018. Some improvements in SSR-6/2018 may impact the implementation and necessitate updates to the regulation in Indonesia. In addition, since the regulation was issued in 2015, the implementation issues need to be analysed due to the development of nuclear applications in Indonesia. This study conducts a regulatory impact analysis of the regulation regarding the safety of transporting radioactive materials in Indonesia and provides recommendations to the authority for future improvements in regulations. The method employed is the Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA), combined with Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA), which provides recommendations for decision-makers considering the rankings of preferences from multiple stakeholders. The study shows that to keep updated with the IAEA’s latest standard, several changes to the regulation are required, such as adding the Surface Contaminated Object-III (SCO-III), which could be a solution for the transportation of large-sized materials that are activated or contaminated, such as radioactive waste from the process of upgrading or decommissioning a reactor. Moreover, the provision for transportation under the special arrangements is also an important aspect that should be included in the regulation. Besides being in line with international practice, the special arrangement is a possible option in situations where some administrative requirements are impracticable. The competent authority may approve special arrangements for transport operations for a single consignment or a planned series of multiple consignments. Adding the special arrangement provision also affects the provision for transactional shipment approval for transportation under special arrangements. The lack of a graded approach to apply shipment approval causes difficulties, as some activities, such as well logging and radiopharmaceuticals, require frequent movement. Furthermore, the lack of coordination between authorities is also an important issue that causes difficulties for carriers to gain a license for the transportation of hazardous materials under exclusive use. The MCDA is conducted by setting the fundamental objective of the safety of the transportation of radioactive material and some specific objectives, such as increasing the regulation alignment with the latest IAEA standard, increasing the harmonized regulation, reducing the cost for the authority and consignors, and increasing the implementation of the regulation to the operators. To achieve the objectives, the attributes and the performance measurement are created. To find the best recommendation, several alternatives are created, including the actions to support the alternative objectives. Using the MCDA, the different stakeholders’ view is considered. The stakeholders’ opinions that are included in the analysis are the regulatory body, operators or consignors, consignee, and the public. Each stakeholder gives the scale of each alternative. After combining all stakeholder views, the results indicate that a minimal change to the GR 58/2015 is the best option and is recommended based on the MCDA calculation. As for the second alternative, the comprehensive change can be another option to consider. It is recommended to have a more comprehensive study by increasing the participation of stakeholders to give their preferred alternative, including the consignors, carriers, and consignees.
