Jakarta (BPJPH) --- The Halal Product Assurance Agency of the Ministry of Religious Affairs continues to push for accelerating Halal product certification.
Today, BPJPH held a coordination meeting with the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Industry, and the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas)/Ministry of National Development Planning to discuss Halal certification financing.
'Through this coordination meeting, BPJPH invited the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Industry, and Bappenas/the Ministry of National Development Planning to jointly explore Halal certification financing through the budget nomenclature of ministries/agencies.'
'This meeting is very important for strengthening and encouraging national ministries/agencies, especially regional governments, to participate in budgeting, promote Halal certification, and encourage business actors to register their products through national ministries/agencies, especially regional governments,' Chuzaemi explained.
To achieve the national goal set by President Joko Widodo of making Indonesia the world's largest Halal product hub by 2024, Chuzaemi continued, the Ministry of Religious Affairs has, through BPJPH, set a target of 10 million Halal-certified products by 2024, with a target of 1 million Halal certificates through the free Halal certification program (Sehati) by 2023.
'To achieve this goal, synergy and cooperation in Halal certification planning and budgeting between the central government and regional governments are needed, which we discussed together at today's coordination meeting,' Chuzaemi explained.
Furthermore, Chuzaemi also stated that the coordination efforts are in line with the mandate of Government Regulation (PP) No. 18 of 2020 on the 2020-2024 RPJMN. The government stipulates that National Priority 1 is to strengthen economic resilience to promote quality and equitable growth, implemented through the Halal industry upgrading strategy.
'In this regard, as part of the development of Islamic economy and finance, the improvement of the Halal industry has been implemented, which includes policy coordination and synchronization among relevant national ministries/agencies (K/L) and the development of the Halal industry,' he added.
By agreement, today's coordination meeting will be followed by further discussions in the near future involving several relevant ministries/agencies and regional governments across Indonesia.
Also attending the coordination meeting were Budiono, Director of Synchronization of Regional Government Affairs III (SUPD III) at the Ministry of Home Affairs; Dzikro, head of the Halal Product Assurance Development and Supervision Center; Abd Syakur, Director of the Halal Cooperation and Standardization Center; Sularso, Associate Expert Planner at the National Development Planning Agency; Jivfy Paomey, Financial Analyst at the Regional Budget Planning Bureau of the Ministry of Home Affairs; I Asrukhil Imro, Head of the Religious Budget and State Higher Institutions Section; and representatives of the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Finance and the National Development Planning Agency.