DECREE OF THE MINISTER OF RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS No. 525/2001 DATED DeCember 10, 2001
ON
APPOINMENT OF THE STATE-OWNED MONEY PRINTING COMPANY (PERUM PERURI) AS THE EXECUTOR OF PRINTING OF
HALAL LABELS
THE MINISTER OF RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS,
Considering :
a. that in the framework of providing certainty on the condition of halal (eligible according to Islamic laws) of food packaged and traded in Indonesia, it is necessary to maintain the originality and intactness of halal labels put on every packages of the matter;
b. to maintain the originality and intactness as meant in letter a, and as the implementation of the provision of Article 10 and Article 12 of Decree of the Minister of Religious Affairs No. 518/2001 on Guidelines and Procedures of the Auditing and Stipulation of Halal Foods, it is necessary to stipulate a printing company capable of making halal labels in the form which is not easy to be damaged and can not be falsified;
c. that because the state-owned money printing company (PERUM PERURI) is a state enterprise in the field of the printing of security documents with a capability in the field of printing security and technology not owned by other party, is necessary to appoint the company as the executor of the printing of halal labels as meant in letter b;
d. that for the matter, is necessary to stipulate it in a ministerial decree. In vief of :
1. Law No. 23/1992 on Health (Statute Book of 1992 No. 100, Supplement to Statute Book No. 3495);
2. Law No. 7/1996 on Foods (Statute Book of 1996 No. 99, Supplement to Statute Book No. 3656);
3. Law No. 8/1999 on Consumers Protection (Statute Book of 1999 No. 42, Supplement to Statute Book No. 3821);
4. Government Regulation No. 69/1999 on Food Labeling and Advertisement (Statute Book of 1999 No. 131, Supplement to Statute Book No. 3867);
5. Presidential Decree No. 102/2001 on the Status, Tasks, Function, Authority, Organizational Structures and Working System of Ministries;
6. Presidential Decree No. 228/M/2001;
the Production and Distribution of Processed Food;
8. Decree of the Minister of Religious Affairs No. 1/2001 on the Organization and Working System of the Ministry of Religious Affairs;
9. Decree of the Minister of Religious Affairs No.518/2001 on Guidelines and Procedures for Auditing and Stipulating Halal Food.
DECIDES : To stipulate :
THE DECREE OF THE MINISTER OF RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS ON THE APPOINTMENT OF THE STATE-OWNED MONEY PRINTING COMPANY (PERUM PERURI) AS THE EXECUTOR OF PRINTING OF HALAL LABELS.
Article 1
Appointing the State-Owned Money Printing Company (PERUM PERURI) as the executor of the printing of halal labels put on every package of halal foods to be traded in Indonesia;
Article 2
Further provisions on the execution of the activity as meant in Article 1 will be regulated in an agreement between the Minister of Religious Affairs and the State-Owned Money Printing Company (PERUM PERURI);
Article 3
The cost of the execution of the activity as meant in Article 1 is born to concerned food producers or importers.
Article 4 This decree starts to be effective on the date of stipulation.
Stipulated in Jakarta On December 10, 2001
THE MINISTER OF RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS, sgd.
