Malang, (malangkota.go.id) – Preparing culinary entrepreneurs in Malang City to compete in the global market, various breakthroughs have been made by the Youth, Sports, and Tourism Agency (Disporapar) of Malang City. One step taken was to hold a halal tourism strengthening activity to socialize the internal halal management system for the culinary industry in Malang City at the Ijen Suites Hotel, Wednesday (6/10/2021).
Head of Disporapar Malang City Dr. Ida Ayu Made Wahyuni, SH., M.Si revealed that in order to compete in the market, the existence of halal certification is very important. For this reason, the Malang City Government continues to encourage culinary actors in Malang City to have halal certification.
"Since 2016, we have signed a joint agreement between the Ministry of Tourism, the Chancellor's Forum and Mr. Sutiaji, who at that time was still the Deputy Mayor," explained Ida.
At that time at the Balava Hotel, it was explained about how to accelerate the provision of services to Muslim tourists in particular. Then in 2019, in April, the Ministry of Tourism has also designated Malang City as a city that implements a superior halal tourist destination along with 16 other regions.
At that time, Malang City was ranked ninth. Because in 2019, Malang City was still arranging not many destinations for hotels, residential businesses, services that were labeled halal. So from that moment on, Malang Raya made a design and strategy for an action plan on how to accelerate the halal labeling of Malang City products.
In 2019-2020, 77 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Malang City have been halal certified. Then hotels and restaurants also started to increase, but only eight have gone down. In fact, in 2020, many Malang City had submitted, so this requires collaboration between Disporapar, industry players from the Ministry of Religion, and the Halal Task Force so that the process of taking care of halal certificates is not too complicated.
"Indeed, the obstacle is when the auditor comes down, the improvements requested by the industry players are stuck there. So it doesn't run smoothly so that in a year Malang City only gets eight. In fact, Malang City has programmed 2020 to get 50. We hope that every year there will be 50 because our planned action at the end of 2023, we hope that there will be 200 who already have halal certification," said Ida. (cah/ram)
