Forbidden Acts behind the Halal Certificate
Halal certificate application at the MUI is allegedly rife with bribes and extortion. Business owners are hoping for the transfer of halal certification authority from the MUI to the BPJPH to make the process easier and more transparent.
Agung Sedayu
March 28, 2022
MEASURING almost half as large as a soccer field, the As-Salam Mosque is being built in Singasari village, Bogor Regency, West Java. The mosque stands on a 3-hectare-wide land owned by a former Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) chairman responsible for halal certification affairs, Amidhan Shaberah.
After its first groundbreaking in February 2014, the mosque’s construction remains unfinished until now. When Tempo came by on Friday, March ...