JAKARTA - The Ministry of Health (MoH) is accelerating the issuance of the Certificate of Public Hygiene Sanitation (SLHS) for more than 26,000 kitchens of Nutrition Fulfillment Service Units (SPPG) throughout Indonesia to ensure national food safety.
"The increase is quite significant, yes, at the end of March, the application was still below 10,000, but now there are more than 26,000 SPPG kitchens that have been recorded," said the Director of Environmental Health at the Ministry of Health, dr. Then Suyanti in the APPMBGI National Summit reported by ANTARA, Saturday, April 25.
He revealed that as of April 24, 2026, at least 14,646 SLHS had been issued or reached 81 percent of the total applications received.
Then from the total data, as many as 17,807 kitchens have applied for an application, while around 8,600 others have not been observed to apply for SLHS.
Thus, the Ministry of Health asked foundations and kitchen management partners to immediately process the certification so that food safety standards can be met.
He added that in addition to this, this acceleration also needs the full support of the Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri) through direct instructions to regional heads to ensure that the Health Service in each region facilitates the certification and inspection process.
"The Ministry of Health is also monitoring the Environmental Health Inspection and the implementation of SOPkok, we found that in some SLHS areas it has not been issued because the food handlers have never attended training," he said.
As a solution, the Ministry of Health provides free training quotas through the Massive Open Online Course/MOOC platform on the Healthy Plaza LMS. The online training includes food safety policy materials, food contamination, personal hygiene, to production processes that comply with the 8-Hour Lesson (JPL) standard.
In addition to online training, the Ministry of Health encourages the use of Non-Physical BOK for IKL examinations and allows the use of humanitarian kits in the area as a tool for monitoring food quality if the local public health laboratory is not available.
"This training is free and accessible 24 hours. We ask the head of the SPPG to help food processors to access this, because their competence certificate is an absolute requirement for the issuance of the SLHS," he said.
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