Indonesia Extends Halal Deadlines and Resets Product Classification

The President established PP 40/2026 on 14 October 2026, and it was promulgated the same day in State Gazette 2026 No. 156. It took effect immediately and amends Articles 160 and 161 of PP 42/2024 after the government assessed business readiness, inspection capacity, supporting infrastructure, supply chains and mutual-recognition arrangements.

The most immediate extension concerns food and beverage businesses. Micro and small businesses now have until 17 October 2028 for food, beverages, slaughter products and slaughter services. The phase for the corresponding products and slaughter services from abroad begins on 18 October 2028 after consideration of mutual-recognition arrangements. Product services connected with food, beverages and slaughter products, other than slaughter services themselves, begin on 18 October 2028.

The amendment does not move every business to 2028. For medium and large domestic businesses, the food, beverage, slaughter-product and slaughter-service phase remains the period ending on 17 October 2024. A PT PMA or other large business cannot rely on the new extension to cure an existing certification gap for those activities.

The revised non-food timetable now runs to 17 October 2028 for natural medicines, quasi medicines, health supplements, cosmetics, chemical products, genetically engineered products, specified apparel and accessories, household health supplies, household equipment, Muslim worship equipment, stationery, office supplies and class A medical devices. OTC and limited OTC medicines and class B medical devices run to 17 October 2029. Prescription medicines other than psychotropics and class C medical devices run to 17 October 2034. Related services follow the deadline for the product they support.

BPJPH Decision 387/2026, effective from 18 October 2026, supplies the detailed taxonomy behind those obligations. Its appendix classifies food and beverages, medicines, cosmetics, chemical and biological products, genetically engineered products, consumer goods and related slaughtering, processing, storage, packaging, distribution, sales and serving services. The operative criteria extend beyond consumer-facing goods to qualifying business-to-business raw materials, food additives and processing aids where animal content, slaughter derivatives or chemical processing creates a critical halal point.

The new taxonomy is operational, not merely descriptive. BPJPH uses it to determine the product types requiring applications, calculate certification fees and issue certificates. Halal inspection bodies use it to identify the items and inputs to examine and to calculate testing or inspection charges. Businesses use it to determine the number of forms and the certification cost. Existing certificates remain recognized, and a product or classification not yet listed can still be submitted under the applicable legislation.

BPJPH Decisions 370-377/2026 convert the general SJPH criteria into sector operating manuals. They cover cosmetics; natural medicines, quasi medicines and supplements; genetically engineered products; medical devices and household health supplies; consumer goods; food and beverage serving services; sales services; and alternative animal-slaughter locations. The manuals were established on 12 October. Most took effect on 18 October, while the medical-device and sales decisions took effect when established and apply by the product phases stated in those decisions.

The manuals make the internal compliance system concrete. The recurring controls include a management-approved halal policy, defined responsibility for the halal supervisor, staff training, approved-material and supplier evidence, documented change control, clean and segregated facilities and equipment, traceability, complaint and nonconformity handling, annual internal audit and annual management review. A medium, large or foreign business must put its halal supervisor through competency testing at an authorised professional competency body.

The service manuals are especially relevant to hotels, retailers, marketplaces and other operators in Bali. Decision 375 requires halal and non-halal serving locations and equipment to be separated, prevents alternating use of serving equipment, requires traceability and prohibits rework of nonconforming food as halal. Decision 376 covers physical retail and e-commerce and requires controls across receiving, storage, display, delivery and product information. Both require periodic SJPH review, while serving and sales operators must report material composition and the halal product process every six months and after changes.

Decision 381/2026 applies the same system discipline to chemical products related to food, beverages, medicines and cosmetics from 18 October 2026. It expressly brings raw materials, processing aids, direct-contact lubricants, grease, sanitizers, cleaning materials, cleaning-validation media and qualifying packaging into the material file. Businesses must maintain supporting evidence, identification and traceability, conduct internal audit and management review at least annually, report the audit result, and report material composition and the halal product process every six months and after a change.

Decision 382/2026 applies to processing services related to food, beverages, medicines and cosmetics. It covers processing arrangements such as OEM, ODM and shared facilities and requires the service provider to control even materials supplied by its client. The provider must document the route from incoming materials to finished-product storage, segregate facilities and equipment, audit and review the system annually, report the audit result, and report composition and process information every six months and after changes. The decision took effect on 13 October, while application begins on 18 October 2026, 18 October 2029 or 18 October 2034 according to the product category.

Decision 377/2026 separately covers animal slaughter outside conventional ruminant or poultry slaughterhouses. It includes market poultry cutting points, farm or business-owned facilities and jointly managed units. The facility must be dedicated to halal slaughter, remain within the stated daily capacity, hold the required NIB or government establishment authority, use competent personnel and control animal health, pre-slaughter handling, slaughter, post-slaughter handling and segregation.

BPJPH Decision 378/2026 separately amends the exemption list by deleting kidney bean seed, Phaseolus vulgaris, from the general list of plant materials exempt from halal certification. A business that imports, processes or uses that seed should no longer rely on its former exempt status. It should classify the material under Decision 387/2026 and apply the product-phase timetable in PP 40/2026 to its own scale, origin and activity.

PP 40/2026 also resolves the imported-product conformity issue directly. Article II revokes the rules governing the conformity assurance of foreign halal products entering Indonesia. The official BPJPH record identifies BPJPH Regulation 4/2026 as revoked. Its planned shipment-specific LPPH route, foreign loading-site inspection, payment timetable and pre-customs filing requirement therefore no longer apply as a legal obligation.

Importers should remove the repealed LPPH step from operating procedures without treating the repeal as a general customs or product-compliance exemption. NIB and importer status, customs classification, trade controls, BPOM or sector registration, labeling, non-halal disclosure, product safety and any still-applicable or voluntarily maintained halal evidence remain separate controls.

The extension is preparation time, not an exemption from the halal framework. Businesses should use it to establish product and ingredient records, supplier controls, facility and process segregation, halal supervision, certificate or foreign-certificate workflows and accurate labels. BPJPH Regulation 2/2026 remains relevant to obligations that are already effective and to enforcement after the applicable transition period expires.