What PP 42 Year 2024 Contains and Its Consequences for Business Actors

Halal regulation in Indonesia does not stop at a single law. It is layered. Law Number 33 Year 2014 on Halal Product Assurance serves as its parent. Below it, the government issues implementing regulations that govern how this system works day to day.

One layer that business actors need to understand is Government Regulation Number 42 Year 2024 on the Implementation of the Halal Product Assurance Sector. This PP replaces PP 39/2021 and is in force.

What PP 42 Year 2024 Regulates

PP 42 Year 2024 regulates the procedures for the establishment, accreditation, scope of activities, and revocation of approval of Halal Inspection Agencies (LPH). In addition, this PP regulates the appointment and dismissal of Halal Auditors.

Those two things sound administrative. But both determine how halal inspection is carried out in the field.

LPH is the agency that inspects and tests products. Halal Auditors are the personnel who carry out those inspections. If the establishment, accreditation, and scope of activities of LPH are strictly regulated, then the inspection pathway becomes more orderly. If the appointment and dismissal of auditors are clearly regulated, then the competence of inspectors is more measurable.

Practical Consequences for Business Actors

For business actors, changes to implementing regulations are not merely an institutional matter. There are several consequences that have a direct impact.

1. Inspection runs through accredited agencies

Because the establishment and accreditation of LPH are regulated, business actors need to ensure that inspections are carried out by an LPH whose scope of activities matches the type of product submitted. The scope of activities of LPH is determined, not arbitrary.

In practice, before choosing an LPH, check whether its scope of competence covers your product. This avoids inspections that have to be repeated.

2. Halal Auditors are subject to appointment and dismissal rules

PP 42 Year 2024 regulates the appointment and dismissal of Halal Auditors. This means that auditor competence is not a unilateral claim. There is a binding mechanism.

For business actors, this means inspection results rest on personnel whose status is clear. You can ask about the status of the auditor handling your product.

3. Technical guidelines for accreditation are regulated separately

The complete guidelines for LPH accreditation are regulated separately. Decree of the Head of BPJPH Number 78 Year 2025 on Guidelines for Accreditation of Halal Inspection Agencies covers requirements, Pratama and Utama qualifications, scope of competence, costs, application flow, surveillance, and witnessing assessments. These guidelines refer to SNI ISO/IEC 17065:2012.

Consequently, LPH quality is not assessed once and then finished. There is surveillance. There is a witnessing assessment. An LPH that does not maintain quality risks its approval status.

What Remains Unchanged

It is important not to misread the roles. The determination of product halalness is the authority of the MUI Fatwa Commission or the Halal Product Fatwa Committee. Halal certificates are only issued by BPJPH.

PP 42 Year 2024 regulates the implementation of the halal product assurance sector, including matters concerning LPH and Halal Auditors. It does not shift the authority to determine halalness.

For business actors, this division of roles is useful. You know where to submit an application, and who determines the halal status of a product.

Link to the Halal Certification Obligation

The halal certification obligation refers to Law Number 33 Year 2014. The groups of products required to be halal-certified along with their phasing are stipulated in Minister of Religious Affairs Decree Number 748 Year 2021, which was later amended by KMA 944/2024.

So, the regulatory chain is layered: the obligation from the law, the phasing from the ministerial decree, and the implementation procedures from the government regulation and technical guidelines.

What Can Be Prepared Now

Changes to implementing regulations do not require business actors to memorize regulation numbers. What requires attention is internal readiness. Several relevant matters:

• Ensure your product type is included in the group required to be halal-certified and at which stage.
• Prepare a complete ingredient list, including additives and processing aids.
• Trace the critical points of ingredients. For example E471 (mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids) which can come from palm oil or animal fat, whey and caseinate which depend on the rennet used, isinglass as a clarifier, as well as glycerin or glycerol (E422) which can be from palm oil or pork fat.
• Keep ingredient documents from suppliers, including information on the source of ingredients.
• Understand that inspection is carried out by an LPH with an appropriate scope of activities.

Those steps do not depend on changes in regulation numbers. They are useful under whichever regime is in force.

Reading Regulation as a Series

Business actors often face a simple question: which rule must I follow. The answer is not one document, but a series.

Law Number 33 Year 2014 provides the basis for the obligation. Minister of Religious Affairs Decree Number 748 Year 2021 and its amendments stipulate product types and their phasing. Government Regulation Number 42 Year 2024 regulates implementation, including LPH and Halal Auditors. Guidelines for LPH accreditation are regulated in Decree of the Head of BPJPH Number 78 Year 2025.

Understanding this series helps business actors place each requirement in its proper place. Not as an administrative burden, but as part of a system that determines how products are assessed.

If your company needs to ensure that all criteria of the halal product assurance system are managed neatly, including ingredient registries and critical points, the SJPH platform from IndoHalal.id can help prepare them in one application.