Bahlil Brings Good News: The Government Will Free Halal Certification And SNI For Small Entrepreneurs Through OSS

Investment Minister Bahlil Lahadalia (Photo: Doc. Ministry of Investment)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Investment / Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) will make the process of obtaining halal certificates and permits for small entrepreneurs free. The entire submission process will be carried out online through the Online Single Submission (OSS) platform.

The Minister of Investment/Head of BKPM Bahlil Lahadalia said that the entire halal licensing and certification process would be carried out as soon as possible. Bahlil said, if the file is complete, the applicant will only need 30 minutes to three hours to wait for the permit to be issued.

"The state has come up with how to make business licensing easier. One of the creative industries is the one that gets free permits with the Indonesian National Standard (SNI) and halal certificates that are financed by the state and now the permits through OSS take no more than three hours to complete," he said at the conference press virtually, Monday, August 23.

Furthermore, according to Bahlil, this method is carried out to increase the number of entrepreneurs in Indonesia. He said that in developing the country, a large number of entrepreneurs were needed, both on the micro, small and medium scale (MSMEs) and large businesses. Meanwhile, the number of entrepreneurs in Indonesia is only 3.6 percent compared to the population.

Meanwhile, ideally, said Bahlil, Indonesia has 6 percent of entrepreneurs compared to the total population.

"Even in Singapore and the United States there can be double digits (10 percent) of the number of entrepreneurs", he said.

Bahlil said that to increase the number of entrepreneurs, the government has formed a team to develop investment priorities. The aim is that the sectors of the economy with the most potential to grow rapidly will receive special attention.

"We formed a team to make a priority scale to directly touch which areas first so that it can be measured because the tourism potential is very large", he explained.