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At the 2026 PCHi (Personal Care and Homecare Ingredients) Hangzhou forum, Indonesian officials made it clear: with mandatory halal regulations for cosmetics and…
Read more →When entering Indonesia, companies most often get confused by three names: BPJPH, BPOM and SNI. They are not an either/or — they govern three different things:…
Read more →Selling food, cosmetics or health products into Indonesia means two gates: Halal BPJPH and BPOM registration. This guide explains what BPOM covers, which regist…
Read more →The booming skincare industry: definition, lifestyle trends, and Halal demand. As a sub-category of cosmetics, skincare products have become part of the modern…
Read more →Breaking news from Indonesia: previously Halal-certified processed food products found to contain porcine elements are being destroyed. BPJPH head witnessed the…
Read more →On January 13, 2026, BPOM head Taruna Ikrar visited Indonesia's first pharmaceutical factory, located in the PT Kimia Farma Tbk. building on Jalan Veteran in ce…
Read more →Indonesia's Coordinating Minister for Food, Zulkifli Hasan, said the government is preparing a sugar-content labeling policy for food and beverages and plans to…
Read more →Indonesia's Food and Drug Authority (BPOM) recalled 56,027 processed-food products from regional markets to strengthen public-health safeguards ahead of Eid al-…
Read more →Indonesia's Food and Drug Authority (BPOM) has confirmed that Nutri-level labeling will first be applied to beverage products in the initial phase, before gradu…
Read more →Indonesia's Food and Drug Authority (BPOM) is encouraging the optimization of domestic drug-production capacity as a mitigation measure against the impact of th…
Read more →BPOM requires that the warehouse or storage facility used by importers comply with Good Distribution Practice standards, with key requirements covering temperat…
Read more →At a Constitutional Court hearing in Jakarta on 6 May 2026 reviewing Indonesia's Patent Law No. 65 of 2024, BPOM explained the relationship between drug registr…
Read more →At Future Beauty Talk 2026, held by the Martha Tilaar Group on 30 April 2026 in Jakarta, BPOM pushed to strengthen innovation and sustainability in Indonesia's…
Read more →Indonesia's Food and Drug Authority (BPOM) reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening the domestic cosmetics ecosystem by taking an active part in the 2026 Indo…
Read more →Laboratory testing is a core requirement of BPOM ML registration for processed foods, with the scope depending on the product category. This article covers the…
Read more →To register non-drug products with Indonesia's BPOM, all label and instruction claims must follow strict rules: no pharmacological, therapeutic, or disease-prev…
Read more →Indonesian regulation requires efficacy claims to be mandatory information on the labels of natural-medicine products. This article covers term definitions, the…
Read more →Under Indonesia BPOM Head Regulation No. 39 of 2013 (as amended by Regulation No. 15 of 2016), this article lists the requirements for submitting an imported-co…
Read more →Herbal plants are generally considered to contain various vitamins and minerals and can help relieve some health complaints, with different parts of a plant (le…
Read more →BPOM head Taruna Ikrar attended the 2nd International Forum of Pharmaceutical Inspectorates (IFPI), held in Abu Dhabi, UAE, on November 24-25, 2025. Representin…
Read more →Indonesia's National Agency of Drug and Food Control (BPOM) and the Jakarta Special Capital Region government are strengthening food oversight during Ramadan an…
Read more →Indonesia's BPOM (Badan Pengawas Obat dan Makanan; in English, the National Agency of Drug and Food Control of Indonesia) is a national-level drug and food regu…
Read more →On Tuesday, December 17, 2025, Taruna Ikrar, head of Indonesia's National Agency of Drug and Food Control (BPOM RI), met an official delegation from China's Gua…
Read more →A brief overview of the cosmetics testing programs required by Indonesia's BPOM, covering microbial contamination, heavy metals (arsenic, cadmium, lead, mercury…
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