PALMOILMAGAZINE, JAKARTA – Due to the increasing difficulty in distinguishing between halal and non-halal products, it is essential that all materials have traceability records and halal certification. Specifically in the palm oil industry, four products have entered the initial certification phase, which will continue until October 2024.
With advancing technology, the Halal Certification and Registration Center of the Halal Product Guarantee Agency (BPJPH) noted that differentiating halal from non-halal products is becoming more challenging.
“That’s why it’s crucial to ensure that every material used is traceable and comes with a halal guarantee,” a BPJPH representative stated during the socialization of Halal Certification for Crude Palm Oil (CPO) organized by the Indonesian Palm Oil Association (IPOA) in mid-May 2024.
He added, “Halal certification not only boosts trade opportunities on an international scale but also fosters collaboration in the halal product market.”
To achieve these goals, various regulations have been introduced, including Law No. 33/2014 on Halal Product Guarantee, which governs the implementation of halal standards in Indonesia and mandates which products must be halal-certified.
Palm oil is now categorized in the first phase process to get halal certificate. Some palm oil products that are categorized in food and obliged to get halal certificate are crude palm kernel oil (refined bleached deodorized palm kernel oil/RBDPKO), crude palm oil (refined bleached deodorized palm oil/RBDPO), olein (refined bleached deodorized palm olein), palm oil stearin (refined bleached deodorized palm stearin/RBDPS), and palm cooking oil.
It is hoped the consumers would be safer and comfortable to consume the products that got halal certificates.
Chairman of IPOA, Eddy Martono said the government published the Government’s Regulation Number 39 / 2021 about The Implementation of Halal Product Guarantee. Chapter 1 paragraph 2 and 3 mentions that halal products are the goods and or services that have something to do with food, drink, medicine, cosmetic, chemical products, biologic products, artificial genetic products, and other goods that are used, worn, and taken for advantages by the people that the halal guarantee has been declared by Islamic laws. (P2)
