According to the information on the Indonesian Food and Drug Administration(BPOM )'s legal database website, the Indonesian Food and Drug Administration published on the afternoon of December 1, 2022 the "Notice on the registration and/or import requirements of food additives sorbitol syrup, glycerin, propylene glycol and other ethylene glycol, diethylene glycol". The circular requires the registration and/or import of Indonesian food additives sorbitol, glycerin and propylene glycol to contain residual limits of ethylene glycol and diethylene glycol. The notice also requires food companies to comply with the requirements, if imported food contains food additives sorbitol, glycerin and or propylene glycol, in the import process, as evidence of compliance, an accredited laboratory or government laboratory analysis report need to be provided . At the same time, the product registration process also needs to provide compliance evidence. The notice is now in effect.

Indonesia suspended the sale of several diethylene glycol & ethylene glycol-equipped children's cold syps, citing that the product may have led to the deaths of sereral children, many of whom are under 5 years old, of acute kidney injury.