Indonesia has made great strides over the past decade in introducing a pesticides approvals system. Despite this, pesticides are still used which have been banned nationally and in most other countries. In order to police whether legislation is being adhered to, the government must introduce a monitoring programme which analyses a reasonable number of samples to allow regulators to determine the risk to the consumer of food grown in the country and to give importers of Indonesian fruit and vegetables the assurances that they need.