To encourage the Homeland designer to actively participate in various famous fashion events in some countries, the government organized the IGHF. Every designer will promote a Halal Woven Fabric that is produced through various production processes, such as Batik, Ikat, Ulos, Lurik Songket, and Ecoprint.
The Indonesia Global Halal Fashion (IGHF) Roadshow was held in collaboration with the Halal Product Assurance Organizing Body (BPJPH) with the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy. This collaboration also involves KainHalal, which has innovated to pioneer the halal-certified fabric industry owned by Fitriani Kuroda. IGHF also involves the active role of Poppy Dharsono, who has been President of Indonesia Fashion Week for the last 30 years and also Chair of the Indonesian Designers Association.
“Collaboratively, we will do a roadshow to follow the fashion event in five countries. The purpose is to introduce fashion halal wised by Indonesian designers that carry the characteristic and the uniqueness of the textiles that are full of Indonesian cultural values, such as weaving, songket, batik, and so on,” Aqil continued to explain.
The IGHF roadshow will start in Islami Fashion Festival or IFF Malaysia on 5-6 August 2024 and continue in the House of Icons Fashion Week London on 13-14 September 2024. In London, not only the performance but all of the designers will stage an exhibition, and it is the third biggest fashion show event in London at Leonardo Royal Hotel London.
Next is Milan City Fashion Week, held in a historical building, Chiostry in Barnaba, on 18-19 September 2024, and Paris Fashion Week on 27-28 September in Paris, Westin Vandome Hotel. The fifth destination of the IGHF roadshow is the World Halal Expo di Istanbul, Turki, which will be held in November 2024.
Fashion is one of the industry sectors in which the status of the halal is critical in Indonesia. In the Constitution Number 33 Year 2014 about Halal Product Assurance, it said that the goods that have been used or utilized by the people are included in the halal certificate obligations product, one of which is clothes.
“We are the only country that halal standardized is obligate and arranged in the country’s constitution. Besides giving protection to the guarantee of halal products for Indonesians, who have the biggest Muslim population in the world, the purpose of the constitution is to give the standard of halal products as an economy plus value for the businesspeople in producing and selling their products, including halal fashion,” said Aqil.
Furthermore, Aqil also said that Halal Product Assurance in Indonesia adheres to the principle of traceability, where halal must be traced from using materials and the production process to presentation until the product is ready for consumption. “With halal traceability, we are building a halal ecosystem that ensures that the use of materials and the entire production process must fulfill the halal and safe criteria so that halal and thayyib become one standard,” said Aqil.
Moreover, halal regulation in Indonesia also gives flexibility for the movement to develop the halal industrial ecosystem. The constitution, government law, and the law derivatives that govern halal product certification also arrange the role and various stakeholders in providing halal certification services and developing the halal industrial ecosystem.
The halal certification done by BPJH involves a business process that involves collaboration with several service providers, including the Halal Inspection Body (LPH), Assistance of Halal Product Process Body (LP3H) for the Micro and Small Businesses (UMK), and the Indonesian Government.
Indonesian Council of Ulama (MUI), the assessment facilitator, provides a halal certification facility for the UMK, Halal Product Assurance Training Body, etc. BPJPH also connects with universities, associations, halal research institutions, and so on to optimize each role in administering Halal Product Assurance.
The magnitude of the enforcement of the Halal Product Assurance ecosystem in Indonesia will give Indonesia a massive advantage in realizing a solid and productive halal ecosystem,” said Aqil.
Aqil continued, adding that the Indonesian halal ecosystem will increasingly strengthen with various synergy and collaborations among a wide range of stakeholders expanded and strengthened over time.
“A bunch of synergies and collaboration across the stakeholder we do in building and strengthening the halal ecosystem to realizing Indonesia vision that which was conceived by President of Indonesia Joko Widodo, that making Indonesia as a biggest halal product producer center in the world, as well as at the same time for the center of world fashion.” He spoke.
As a form of support towards the government, LPPOM LPH is ready to help realize halal fashion products with a fast and easy testing process, especially for fabrics. This is to ensure the certainty of fashion halal availability for people and fashion activists and to create a sense of security and comfortability for Muslim consumers in Indonesia.
LPPOM has a laboratory that is capable of doing halal testing for fashion products; it is by testing the used goods in the laboratory. Through laboratory testing, if a fashion product is made of leather, it can be identified and authenticated as a source of material and leather products, such as bags, belts, shoes, wallets, jackets, and so on. LPPOM MUI has a halal laboratory that provides two testing methods: it is molecular, which is a DNA test through the PCR technique, and microscopic testing, which involves observing the skin pores pattern with the microscope stereo.
Besides leather testing services for fashion products, LPPOM MUI Laboratory is also the first laboratory in Indonesia accredited by KAN for halal and vegan testing. This laboratory already has the ISO/IEC 17025:2017. Therefore, you don’t have to feel hesitant to test the halalness of the product in the LPPOM MUI Laboratory. To know more about the testing information, you can access this website: https://e-halallab.com/.
You can check the halal status of a product through the www.halalmui.org website or the Halal MUI app, which can be downloaded from Google Playstore and the BPJPH website. Business persons who have a food product and have not been halal certified are registered immediately and choose LPPOM MUI LPH to do the halal testing to fulfill the regulations that the government has set. LPPOM also offers various lab testing, including for food safety and vegan claims. (ZUL)
