Visit to 3 Southeast Asian countries for the 15th APAC (Asia-Pacific Association of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations)
- Mission: Enhancing access to innovative medicines for the people in Asia - - The "Kusurium", a permanent exhibition
～Mission: Enhancing access to innovative medicines for the people in Asia -
Nov 27, 2025
The Asia Partnership Conference of Pharmaceutical Associations (APAC), which will be held for the 15th time in 2026, will be held on Tuesday, April 21, 2026 at Keidanren Kaikan. In preparation for the 15th APAC, we visited APAC member industry associations and pharmaceutical regulatory authorities in three ASEAN countries. The following is a report on the contents of these visits.
Continuing from 2024, we visited the regulatory authorities in Thailand, Indonesia, and Singapore with our sister organizations in each country from November 17 to 21, 2025, in preparation for the APAC meeting. In addition to exchanging views, we provided an overview of the 15th APAC and requested their cooperation in participating in the conference and sending speakers/panelists to the sessions.
They met with Mr. Supattra Boonserm, newly appointed Secretary General of the Thai FDA, Ms. Taruna Ikrar, Head of the Indonesian National Pharmaceutical and Food Regulatory Agency (BPOM), and Mr. Adjunct Prof Raymond Chua, CEO of the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) of Singapore. The authorities expressed a high level of interest in APAC activities and shared the importance of collaboration between the industry and authorities to solve issues such as reliance optimization and sector expansion, review efficiency through digitization and AI, and market access improvement. This has clarified the direction to further strengthen future collaboration, building on the existing relationship of trust.
In addition, the Thai and Indonesian authorities communicated the content of the meeting via official news releases and social media on the same day, indicating a high level of interest.
Thailand
Meeting with Thai FDA
Mr. Supattra Boonserm, Head of Murakami APAC Operations and
Supattra Boonserm, Thai FDA Secretary General
Meeting with Thai sister organization (PReMA)
Indonesia
Meeting with BPOM
Mr. Murakami, Head of APAC and
Ms. Taruna Ikrar, Head of BPOM
Meeting with Indonesian sister organization (IPMG)
Singapore
Meeting with Health Sciences Authority of Singapore (HSA)
Meeting with Singapore Sister Associations (SAPI)
The program for the 15th APAC in 2026 will include a keynote address and five Sessions (Drug Discovery Collaboration, Regulation and Licensing, Manufacturing, Quality Control and Supply, Asia UHC, and e-labeling). We look forward to lively discussions among the many participants from industry, regulatory authorities, and academia from Japan and abroad.
(APAC Project: Ryosho Imai, Masaaki Jianno, Naomutsumi Hikage, Yuji Yahiro)