Ma`ruf Amin: Jokowi Wants Indonesia as Largest Halal Producer
19 September 2018 22:02 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Future vice presidential candidate Ma`ruf Amin said President Joko `Jokowi` Widodo strived to create Indonesia as the world`s largest producer of halal products.
“If Pak Jokowi re-elected, he wants to make Indonesia as the world’s largest producer of halal products in the future,” said Ma’ruf in the forum of economic research and sharia finance in a university in Banda Aceh, Wednesday, September 18.
He explained several measures applied to realize the goal is by providing the halal industry with competitive products in the international market. “The halal products include its facilities and supporting facilities to create a product such as the storage room,” Ma’ruf added.
According to Ma’ruf Amin, the halal standard in Indonesia has become the basic reference to the world’s halal standard in which more than 50 countries asked for halal credit from the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI).
“This halal certification aims to provide convenience for the people and is regulated by the law. Law assurance is now such an obligatory,” said the MUI chairman.
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