Readiness of The Lampung Local Food Agroindustry for Halal Policy

Abstrak

The obligations or conditions of food products traded by producers in terms of
guaranteeing halalness have been regulated in Law No.33 of 2014 concerning Guaranteed
Halal Products. In the regulation, precisely in article 4 it is explained that products that enter,
circulate, and are traded in the territory of Indonesia must be certified halal. The purpose of this
study was to analyze the readiness of local food agroindustry UMKM in Lampung towards
halal certification policies and the factors that influence it. The results of the study revealed
that the readiness of small and medium-scale food industry players in the research locations
was not ready to implement halal policies. Based on the results of research at the research
location, it is known that the factors of knowledge about halal, awareness to find out,
technology used, scale of business, knowledge of bureaucratic rules and certification costs
(0.40) This is due to a lack of understanding of the urgency of halal certification and the
relatively small scale of business