INDONESIA - HALAL - LPPOM-MUI launches CEROL-SS23000

www.halalmui.org - Jakarta - To increase the halal certification services, LPPOM MUI halal certification will launch an online service called CEROL-SS23000 (Certification Online Service System 23 000). This launch will be held on Thursday, May 24, 2012 held at Hotel Aryaduta, Tani Monument, Jakarta.

For companies that have been certified halal get an invitation, please immediately take further confirmation. By due to space limitations, only companies that have been repeated to confirm we have received. For more information, please contact the Office MUI LPPOM Baranangsiang 0251-8358748 or 081511915531 with Mr. Halim. (source)

INDONESIA - HALAL - CEROL launch-SS23000; Halal Certification Services Online Fast, And Transparent

www.halalmui.org - Jakarta - Research Institute for Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI LPPOM) launches Online Certification Service System (CEROL-SS) 23000, on May 24, 2012 in Jakarta. Code number 23 000 on the momentum of this system shows that the MUI LPPOM Milad-23 when the system was developed and launched.
 "This system is designed to be able to provide halal certification services with the concept of fast, easy, transparent but still accurate," said Director of LPPOM MUI, Ir. Lukmanul Hakim, M.Sc., in his speech at the Launching (launch) system, which was attended by government officials staeholder of halal-related, such as POM, businessmen from companies that have filed a new and halal certification. (source)

INDONESIA - HALAL - Indonesia: Ulema council launches online halal certification service

www.halalfocus.net - Agency of Indonesian Ulema Council (LPPOM MUI) launched an online halal certification service called CEROL – SS 23000 here on Thursday.
“The CEROL certification system will accelerate the process of halal certification for products and improve the agency`s documentation system,” LPPOM Director Lukmanul Hakim stated here on Thursday.

According to Lukmanul, the online system will ensure the transparency of the halal certification process followed by LPPOM. “The concerned company can follow every sequence of the halal certification online,” he remarked.

Lukmanul explained that a company must go through several stages in order to obtain halal certification for a product. First, the company must register its product with LPPOM, provide complete data regarding the product and pay for the halal certification process. Following this, an officer from LPPOM will crosscheck the data given to the agency with the real condition of the product. (source)

INDONESIA - HALAL - Jakarta to be World's Halal Food Center

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Jakarta will be a center of the world’s halal food as headquarter of the World Halal Food Council (WHFC) that will be officially opened in January 16 2012.

"The office, located in the MUI (Indonesian Ulema Council) Building, Central Jakarta, will be inaugurated concurrently with the opening ceremony of the WHFC annual meeting," the Director of MUI Food and Drug Analysis Agency (LPPOM) Lukmanul Hakim said in a release received here, Thursday. (source)

INDONESIA - HALAL - MUI remains alert amid China’s barrage of halal products

The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has confirmed a dramatic rise in the number of halal food products coming in from China, but remained skeptical over that country’s developing halal industry.

“The number of halal products from China has increased by 50 to 100 percent since last year,” the MUI’s Food and Drug Analysis Agency (LPPOM) chief Lukmanul Hakim told The Jakarta Post on Wednesday.  (source)

HALAL - MUI to stage halal products expo (24-26 June Jakarta)

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Cosmetic and Food Research Division of the Indonesian Ulema Council (LPPOM MUI) is to hold a Halal Products Expo (Indhex) next June 24-26 at the Smesco building in Jakarta, a source said.

"The exhibition is designed to increase awareness among Indonesian Muslims about the importance of halal food certification," Director of LPPOM MUI Lukmanul Hakim said on Monday. (full story - antara news)

HALAL - MUI to set single national halal standard

JAKARTA: The Indonesia Ulema Council (MIU) says it will set a single national standard for certifying halal food to replace 41 world-class institutions promoting different standards in Indonesia.

The MUI’s food, medicine and cosmetics analysis body (LPPOM MUI) head Lukmanul Hakim said that the 41 institutions had different standards, with only eight referring to the MUI.

“The different standards lie, for example, in pork usage. There are countries that see gelatin as halal, while MUI does not. Indonesia has every right to set our own standards for consumer protection,” he said as quoted by tempointeraktif.com news portal.