The Indonesian Muslim Entrepreneurs Community (KPMI) held a Muslim Life Fair to encourage the spirit of MSMEs in doing business. On this occasion, LPPOM was present to explain the urgency of halal certification for a product.
To encourage halal certification for MSME products, the Indonesian Muslim Entrepreneurs Community (KPMI) held the 2024 Muslim Life Fair again in Cibinong on May 31-June 2, 2024 at the Innovation Convention Center (ICC) BRIN, Cibinong, Bogor Regency. On this occasion, LPPOM had the opportunity to explain the urgency of halal certification for Micro and Small Enterprises (MSMEs) products.
The President Director of LPPOM, Muti Arintawati, said that halal certification for food and beverages is one of the products that must have a halal certificate in October 2024. However, the Government has postponed the mandatory halal for food and beverage MSEs from 2024 to 2026.
“Even so, this postponement certainly does not make MSEs lazy. To get to October 2026, business actors do not delay processing halal certificates and wait for the end of the phasing period. So that MSEs will not have difficulty in meeting the mandatory halal deadline,” said Muti.
Therefore, his party encourages all parties to accelerate halal certification for MSEs. As a Halal Inspection Body (LPH), LPPOM is ready to enable the Government to successfully implement the mandatory halal regulations initiated to realize Indonesia’s ideals of becoming the world’s halal centre. LPPOM’s real action in encouraging this is realized in various programs so that MSEs can move up a class to the global market.
Meanwhile, according to the Secretary of the Bogor City Cooperatives, Small and Medium Enterprises Service, Akhmad Yani Suryana, S.K.M., M.Kes, MSME products, especially those that have been halal certified, are now allowed to enter the market to State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN). He hopes that MSME products that have been exported before can compete on the national stage because they have entered BUMN, so they have certainly been tested.
In addition, the Acting Executive Director of the National Committee for Sharia Economics and Finance (KNEKS), Dr. Taufik Hidayat, M.Ec, said that Indonesia’s total halal product exports had reached 43.3 billion US dollars as of October 2023. According to the Ministry of Cooperatives and SMEs of the Republic of Indonesia, the number of food and beverage products in Indonesia that have halal certificates through the self-declare route has reached more than 1.4 million issuances until March 2024, so the utilization of the self-declare halal certification quota has currently exceeded the target of 1 million halal certificates.
According to her party, Islamic economic and financial literacy still needs to be continuously improved, so various efforts are required to invite the public to understand Islamic economics better, consume halal products and use Islamic financial services.
Acting Chairperson of the Bogor Regency Regional National Craft Council (Dekranasda) Siti Chomzah Asmawa expressed her appreciation for the implementation of the Muslim Life Fair organized by the Indonesian Muslim Entrepreneurs Community, Bogor Regional Coordinator, as a means of increasing awareness, especially for Muslims, of the Islamic and halal lifestyle.
“The highest appreciation for the implementation of the Muslim Life Fair as an effort to strengthen the halal ecosystem and improve MSMEs and the halal industry of Islamic economics and finance in Bogor Regency. At the same time, it is an effort to meet the needs and increase awareness, especially for Muslims, of the Islamic and halal lifestyle,” said Siti Chomzah. Now, shopping for MSME products no longer needs to be worried. Many MSME products already have halal certificates. You can check the list of other halal-certified UMK products through the website www.halalmui.org, the Halal MUI application that can be downloaded on Playstore, and the BPJPH website. Business actors can also access various other services, such as information on nutritional value testing services for UMK offered by the LPPOM Lab. (ZUL)
