Erick Thohir Believes Halal Industry Will Grow Positively During COVID-19 Pandemic

SOE Minister Erick Thohir

JAKARTA - Minister of State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN) Erick Thohir believes the trend of the national and global halal industry will continue to grow in the positive zone despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

For information, based on the report of The State of Global Islamic Economy 2020/2021, Indonesia is ranked 4th in the Global Islamic Economic Indicators. This position has also increased by one rank compared to 2019/2020, while in 2018/2019 Indonesia was ranked 10th.

The chairman of the Islamic Economic Community (MES) is also sure that the increasing indicators show the development of the country's halal industry in the future.

"Although still in a pandemic situation, it is believed that the halal lifestyle trend will still be able to attract the domestic and global community," said Erick Thohir in his statement, Saturday, August 28.

According to him, in order to run optimally, the government will roll out the halal industry through a more macro approach. This is done so that people are more familiar with halal products.

Erick said, as a country with the largest Muslim population, there is a potential that needs to be developed even better. One of them is by providing halal product sales centers that are easily accessible to all levels of society at affordable and competitive prices.

"The inauguration of rest area 72A (Jakarta-Padalarang Toll Road) as a Halal Hub is intended to be a forum for halal business actors which is an important element in moving the halal industry market so that their business can grow," he said.