Halal certification for micro and small businesses: the 17 October 2026 deadline, the free route and applying through SIHALAL

What to have ready

• An NIB (business identification number) from OSS showing a micro or small business scale.
• An active email address and mobile number to create a SIHALAL account.
• The electronic ID card (KTP-el) of your halal supervisor, the person in your business appointed to oversee the halal production process.
• A list of product names and a photo of each product you are registering.
• A list of every ingredient you use, with brands and suppliers, plus proof that ingredients are halal where you have it.
• A short description of your production process, from buying ingredients through cooking, storage and packing.

How to apply for halal certification in SIHALAL

1. Check that your product is covered

   Food, drink, their raw materials and additives, and slaughtered products must be halal certified. Products made from forbidden (haram) ingredients are not certified halal but must carry a ‘not halal’ statement. The deadline for micro and small businesses is 17 October 2026.

2. Choose a route: self-declare or regular

   Self-declare (a halal declaration by the business) is for micro and small businesses whose products are low-risk, use ingredients already confirmed halal and are made by a simple process. If a product needs inspection or laboratory testing, or does not meet the self-declare criteria, use the regular route through a Halal Inspection Body (LPH).

3. Create an account and apply in SIHALAL

   Go to ptsp.halal.go.id, create an account, then enter your business, products, ingredients and production process. For the free route, choose registration through facilitation (the SEHATI programme). Everything is online; you do not need to take documents to a BPJPH office.

4. Go through assistance or inspection

   On the self-declare route, a halal process assistant checks and validates your declaration at your premises within 10 working days. On the regular route, the LPH calculates the fee, you pay the bill by virtual account within 5 working days, and the LPH inspects the product within 15 working days.

5. Wait for the ruling and the certificate

   For self-declare products the halal status is set by the Halal Product Fatwa Committee; regular-route products go to a fatwa hearing at the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) or, in Aceh, the MPU. Once the ruling arrives, BPJPH issues an electronic halal certificate within 1 working day.

6. Download the certificate and use the halal label

   Download the certificate from SIHALAL and print the Halal Label, showing the logo and certificate number, on your packaging. If you change ingredients, recipe or process, apply to update the certificate through SIHALAL.

What halal certification costs a small business

The self-declare route through facilitation, including the SEHATI programme, is free for micro and small businesses that meet the criteria. If a business chooses to pay for self-declare itself, the fee is Rp230,000. The regular route for micro and small businesses costs Rp200,000 for the application and Rp100,000 for the fatwa hearing, plus an inspection fee calculated by the LPH up to the ceiling in BPJPH Head Decree 22/2024. The regular route with a facilitation code from a sponsor costs the business nothing.

These fees are set out in BPJPH Head Decree 243/2025 on service standards. The figure of Rp650,000 for the regular route that is still widely quoted comes from a 2023 BPJPH article based on the 2021 tariff rules; the 2025 service standard calculates the LPH inspection fee from variables such as production facilities and auditor working days, so check the LPH’s itemised bill in SIHALAL. Fees already paid are not refunded if an application lapses through the applicant’s own fault (PP 42/2024, Article 102(5)).

Deadlines and which products must be certified

Under PP 42/2024 on halal product assurance, products that enter, circulate or are traded in Indonesia must be halal certified. The obligation is phased in. The first phase covers food and drink; raw materials, food additives and processing aids for food and drink; and slaughtered products and slaughtering services.

For medium and large businesses this phase ended on 17 October 2024. For micro and small businesses it ends on 17 October 2026 (Article 160(2)). For products from abroad, the Minister of Religious Affairs sets the obligation no later than 17 October 2026. Products made from forbidden ingredients are exempt but must carry a ‘not halal’ statement.

On 9 October 2026 the head of BPJPH said the halal obligation will apply from 18 October 2026 with no postponement. BPJPH also said the government is drafting special provisions for certain situations, especially products of micro and small businesses and imports, and that enforcement will be through guidance without raids. As of 14 October 2026 we had not found those special provisions published.

• BPK legal database: Government Regulation 42/2024 ↗
• BPJPH: mandatory halal applies from 18 October 2026 (9 October 2026) ↗

The self-declare route and the SEHATI programme

Self-declare means a product’s halal status is decided on the business owner’s pledge, after it has been checked and validated by a halal process assistant. Assistants work under assistance bodies run by Islamic community organisations, Islamic religious institutions or universities. Under PP 42/2024, assistance must be completed within 10 working days of the application.

BPJPH has opened 1.35 million free halal certificates for micro and small businesses through SEHATI 2026. The criteria include: an NIB at micro or small scale; annual sales of no more than Rp15 billion, confirmed by self-declaration; ingredients already confirmed halal; a simple production process; at most one production site and one outlet; and halal production space and equipment kept separate from anything non-halal.

Other criteria: no hazardous ingredients; slaughtered animal ingredients only from halal-certified producers or slaughterhouses; minced meat ground by a halal-certified grinding service or by the business itself; manual or semi-automatic equipment; and simple preservation using no more than one method. The product types allowed on this route are listed in BPJPH Head Decree 146/2025.

• BPJPH: criteria for free SEHATI 2026 halal certificates ↗
• BPJPH legal database: Head Decree 146/2025 (self-declare technical guidelines) ↗

The regular route and how its cost is calculated

The regular route is for products that need inspection or laboratory testing. After you apply in SIHALAL, BPJPH checks the documents and assigns an LPH within 2 working days. The LPH then calculates the inspection fee within 2 working days, and the bill must be paid by virtual account within 5 working days. If it is not paid, the application is cancelled and you must apply again.

Regular-route documents include an application letter, your NIB, business details, halal supervisor documents including a halal supervisor training certificate, a list of products and ingredients, production process documents and Halal Product Assurance System (SJPH) documents. For micro and small businesses, BPJPH’s fee is Rp200,000 for the application and Rp100,000 for the fatwa hearing. The LPH inspection fee is a unit cost multiplied by auditor working days plus other items, up to the ceiling in BPJPH Head Decree 22/2024.

• BPJPH: Head Decree 243/2025 on service standards (PDF) ↗
• BPJPH: how to apply on the regular and self-declare routes ↗

After certification: label, validity and updates

A halal certificate is valid from the date BPJPH issues it and stays valid as long as the ingredients and halal production process do not change (PP 42/2024, Article 88(2)). If you change ingredients or process, or add variants, you must update the certificate through SIHALAL; the certificate number stays the same.

Certified products must carry the Halal Label, showing at least the logo and certificate number. The label must be easy to see and hard to remove. Exceptions to printing the label include products whose packaging is too small, products packed in front of the buyer in small amounts, and products sold loose; for those, the halal certificate itself is the proof.

• BPK legal database: Government Regulation 42/2024 (Articles 88, 90, 106–109) ↗

If you are not certified after 17 October 2026

BPJPH Regulation 2/2026 on administrative sanctions (promulgated on 5 June 2026) treats failing to certify a product after its phase-in period as a violation. The sanction is a written warning and/or withdrawal of the goods from circulation (Article 18(1)), in line with Article 171 of PP 42/2024.

A business that receives a written warning must act on it within 30 days. If it does not, BPJPH orders the goods withdrawn from circulation and may publicise the warning through the media or stickers (Articles 19 and 20). A business that is sanctioned can file an objection with the head of BPJPH.

BPJPH warns of scams in its name asking for payment of fines, sanctions or fees to ‘settle’ certification. Only trust BPJPH’s official channels: phone 176, WhatsApp 0811-1421-142 or email layanan@halal.go.id.

• BPJPH Regulation 2/2026 on administrative sanctions (peraturan.go.id) ↗
• BPJPH: new rules on administrative sanctions ↗

Things to check carefully

Frequently asked questions