Heads of BPJPH and Barantin Meet to Discuss Strengthening Synergy for Healthy and Halal Product Assurance
The Head of the Halal Product Assurance Organising Body (BPJPH), Ahmad Haikal Hasan, commonly known as Babe Haikal, met with the Head of the Indonesian Quarantine Agency (Barantin), Abdul Kadir Karding, at the Barantin Building on Jalan MH Thamrin in Central Jakarta on Monday (4/5/2026).
This strategic meeting aimed to align the roles of both institutions in ensuring the flow of products that are safe, healthy, and meet halal criteria as mandated by halal product assurance regulations.
Babe Haikal stated that synergy with Barantin is one of the efforts to ensure the implementation of the mandatory halal certification obligation, or Wajib Halal, in October 2026 as mandated by regulations.
“The synergy between BPJPH and Barantin is extremely important in carrying out the mandate of Law No. 33 of 2014 on Halal Product Assurance and Government Regulation No. 42 of 2024, where products entering, circulating, and traded in Indonesian territory must be halal certified,” said Babe Haikal.
“Anything, food, beverages, (services and results of) slaughter, cosmetics, medicines, consumer goods, where from October 2026 (they must be halal),” added Babe Haikal in his press release.
“Therefore, this meeting is our joint anticipatory step, and it will be followed up with further coordination, including system and data integration in our respective dashboards, inspections (supervision), this will certainly help each other if we integrate them together,” continued Babe Haikal.
He also emphasised that the coordination established between BPJPH and Barantin is expected to create an integrated supervision system.
In this way, every product entering Indonesia is not only guaranteed in terms of health and safety but also has clear halal status that can be accessed and understood by the public.
“All healthy products can enter Indonesia, halal products will be given a halal label and non-halal products will be given a non-halal label. This label is not just a label, but also a form of trust for the public,” explained Babe Haikal.
He explained that with halal certification, it not only provides protection to the public through assurance of healthy and halal products but also guarantees the strengthening of food security and the competitiveness of Indonesian food product exports.
Karding also hopes that this synergy between Barantin and BPJPH can solidify halal regulations and intensify comprehensive and traceable (traceability) supervision of product flows, from pre-border, at border, to post-border.
“The halal certificate will become a complementary document in quarantine actions, so the synergy between Barantin and BPJPH can support the realisation of an integrated, accountable supervision system that is able to protect public interests and the national economy,” said Abdul Kadir Karding.
He emphasised that commodities in the form of products, including animal products that can be consumed by the public, also need to pay attention to their halal aspects. This is because Indonesia is a country with a majority Muslim population.
“Therefore, harmonisation of regulations and standards between product health aspects and halal aspects is very necessary,” said Karding.
“It is hoped that these matters become our initial foundation and can bridge this cooperation so that halal product flow health supervision in the field can be carried out effectively,” said Abdul Kadir Karding.