HALAL PRODUCT CONSTITUTION AS INDONESIAN MUSLIM SHIELD

The stronger the legal basis of halal agencies, the more guaranteed halal products circulating in the community. As Indonesia is a country with a majority of Muslim population in the world, its products such as food, beverage, medicine and cosmetics that are produced and circulated should not be doubted about its halal status. However, with the rise of products containing haram ingredients as well as imported products that are not guaranteed as halal, it is necessary that the government establish an agency administering guaranteed halal products, moreover as we entered the era of global trade and the issue that government will legalize alcohol. After conducting a comparative study toward halal institutions in Europe, America and Asia, it is known that halal agencies sheltered under the government shows better performance than private institutions that do not have a strong legal basis. Keywords: agency, product, and hala