Indonesia: Chicken meat requires halal certification

Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia - As of October 2024, the government will begin requiring poultry slaughterhouses (RPHU) to have a halal certificate for the sale of broiler chickens. The reason is to ensure that the broiler chickens sold on the market are guaranteed to be halal and hygienic. In response to this, a number of traders in traditional markets claim that the broiler chickens they sell are guaranteed to be halal, hygienic, and are not tiren chickens, aka dead chickens or chickens that died yesterday. For example, Sofyan, a broiler chicken seller at Gunung Batu Market, Bogor, West Java. He claims that the broiler chickens he sells are safe to consume and guaranteed to be halal, because he handles the slaughtering process himself. "We cut the chicken here ourselves, use our own readings (prayers), not at the factory, but cut it directly with us here. It's guaranteed to be safe, God willing, because we'll find out if it's alive. I'll buy it straight away and bring it here." "You ...