BPJPH: MSME Halal Certificates Including Mandatory Street Vendors Before October 18

Head Of The Center For Registration And Halal Certification Of The Halal Product Guarantee Administration (BPJPH) Of The Ministry Of Religion (Kemenag) Siti Aminah/ANTARA

Head of the Center for Registration and Halal Certification of the Halal Product Assurance Agency (BPJPH) of the Ministry of Religion (Kemenag) RI Siti Aminah explained that food and beverage products from all business actors, including MSMEs, must include a halal certificate before October 18, 2024.

"For food and beverage products, additional food ingredients, as well as slaughter products and services, it must be certified halal (before) on October 18, 2024, because it is in accordance with the regulations (government)," Aminah said as quoted by ANTARA, Thursday, March 14.

Mandatory halal certification or certificates are regulated in Law Number 33 of 2014 concerning Halal Product Guarantee as amended by Law no. 11 of 2020 concerning Job Creation.

This is also regulated in Government Regulation Number 39 of 2021 concerning the Implementation of the Halal Product Guarantee Sector. MSMEs or Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, including street vendors, must have a halal certificate on their products, no later than October 17, 2024 or before October 18, 2024.

Therefore, the government through the BPJPH of the Ministry of Religion and related holders will facilitate MSMEs in obtaining halal certification for free, with applicable terms and conditions that can be seen on their official website pages.

The declaration of this free certificate is given to 1 million MSMEs in the SEHATI (Free Halal Certificate) program and until the beginning of 2024 there are still around 200 thousand quotas left.

"The year 2023 exceeded the target because 1.5 million people registered, this year it has almost one million and the remaining 200 thousand (coota) again," said Aminah.

Untuk Lembaga Pemeriksa Halal (LPH) yang bertugas dalam melakukan kegiatan pemeriksaan dan atau pengujian terhadap kehalalan produk khusus UMKM, Aminah mengatakan saat ini sudah ada 50 lebih yang dapat membantu proses sertifikasi halal.

Aminah also said that her party was ready to carry out halal certification on a large scale as is currently being done.

"Halal registration is online, we already have a system related to simultaneous reporting (halal certification). The human resources are also ready," he said.

"Currently we are launching the name WHO 2024 or Mandatory Halal October 2024. Currently, our team, namely BPJPH stake holders and regional BPJPH, is registering the spot in 27 provinces and 405 points for three days (14-16 March 2024)," he said.

If food and beverage product businesses, additional food ingredients, as well as yield products and slaughtering services do not yet have halal certification through October 18, 2024, they will be sanctioned in the form of a warning to prohibit the circulation of products.

"We have two sanctions if on October 18 they do not have halal certification, the first sanction is in the form of giving information in the form of verbal or written warnings, sanctions for both products should not be circulated," he concluded.