Lloyds Register Indonesia History

Lloyds Register opened an office in Java in December 1872 as a result of growing trade
between Indonesia, the Netherlands, Japan and China. Offices were also opened in Batavia and
Sourabaya (now Surabaya) in February 1873, to help cover periodical surveys and repair works.
The first survey in Surabaya was completed early in 1877 on the Danish-flagged barque Taiwan,
built to class in Germany in August 1875. On March 8, 1923 Adriaan Bijlo was appointed as
exclusive ship and engineer surveyor to Surabaya.
Captain Swart, who opened the Batavia office in 1873, was authorised to issue
certificates to ships not classed by Lloyds Register, and almost unique privilege which suggest
he was an exceptional man.
In 1942 the office were closed due to the Japanese invansion and occupation of
Indonesia. Surveyor Johannes Franciscus Vrouwes reopened the exclusive office at Batavia in
November 1945 at the request of the Netherland East Indies Shipping Organisation.
Lloyds Register has expanded services to support Indonesias vast industrial
development and growing oil industries. A notable project in the 1970s involved the
construction of a floating fertiliser production complex for the state oil company Pertamia,
during which surveyor in the UK and Belgium inspected pressure vessels and other plant, and
the conversion of the ship s hulls to house them. By 1996 over 175 offshore platforms had been
certified for major oil companies operating of Indonesia including Acro, Conoco, Total, Union Oil
and ILAPCO. Domestic shipbuilders have delivered some highly sophisticated ships to class.
Today Lloyds Register has offices at Batam, Jakarta and Surabaya.