BPJPH Head Decree 243/2025: Service Standards and Their Consequences for Business Actors

Head of BPJPH (Halal Product Assurance Agency) Decree Number 243 of 2025 regulates service standards at BPJPH. This regulation establishes 27 types of services complete with requirements, timeframes, and tariffs. Its scope covers LPH (Halal Inspection Agency) accreditation, registration of LP3H (Halal Product Process Assistance Agency) and PPH (Halal Product Process) Assistants, issuance of halal certificates, and facilitation codes. This Decree revokes Decree 120/2022.

For business actors, this regulation is not merely an internal institutional document. Its contents determine how long the process takes, what must be prepared, and what costs are attached to each stage.

What Is Regulated

The service standards establish three things for each type of service. First, the requirements that must be met by the applicant. Second, the completion timeframe. Third, the applicable tariff.

With these three elements in writing, business actors have a reference for planning halal certification processing. The uncertainty regarding process duration and costs becomes more measurable, although it still depends on the completeness of documents and field conditions.

Consequences for Business Actors

1. More definite time planning

The timeframe set per service enables business actors to arrange schedules. If the target market requires a halal certificate within a certain period, the processing schedule can be arranged backward from that deadline. Delays are easier to identify: whether they originate from the applicant's side or from the service stage.

2. More transparent costs

The listed tariffs help business actors prepare budgets. The costs of LPH accreditation, LP3H and PPH Assistant registration, and halal certificate issuance become items that can be calculated from the outset. This is important especially for businesses that budget certification as part of compliance costs.

3. The role of LPH and assistants becomes clearer

LPH accreditation services are regulated in this regulation. Accreditation refers to SNI ISO/IEC 17065:2012, a standard governing impartiality, confidentiality, personnel competence, complaint and appeal management, and accountability of certification bodies.

For business actors, this means that accredited LPH work within a clear quality framework. Inspections are carried out by bodies whose competence is assessed, and objections to inspection results have a defined channel.

The same applies to LP3H and PPH Assistants. Their registration is regulated in the service standards, so business actors can verify whether the assistant assisting them is registered.

4. Facilitation codes and cost pathways

The service standards also cover facilitation codes. For UMK (Micro and Small Enterprises), this is relevant because the facilitation pathway relates to certification financing. Business actors need to ensure which pathway is taken from the outset to avoid administrative errors in the middle of the process.

Link to Halal Obligation

The obligation to have halal certification is regulated in Minister of Religious Affairs Decree Number 748 of 2021 concerning Types of Products Required to Have Halal Certification. That regulation establishes product groups required to have halal certification along with their phasing, and has been amended by KMA 944/2024.

BPJPH Head Decree 243/2025 complements the service side. If the KMA determines which products must be halal, the service standards determine how the application is processed, within what timeframe, and at what cost.

It should be noted that the determination of halalness is the authority of the MUI (Indonesian Ulema Council) Fatwa Commission or the Halal Product Fatwa Committee. Halal certificates are only issued by BPJPH. The service standards do not change this division of authority.

What Needs to Be Prepared

• Ensure the type of service needed matches the business status and product type.
• Prepare the required documents according to the list in the service standards.
• Verify the status of the assistant or LP3H that will help the process.
• Record the timeframe of each stage as a basis for monitoring.
• Calculate tariffs from the outset and determine the source of funding.

By understanding the contents of the service standards, business actors can reduce the risk of documents being returned, taking the wrong pathway, or unexpected delays.

Closing

BPJPH Head Decree 243/2025 places requirements, timeframes, and tariffs as open information. The practical consequence: business actors are required to be more orderly in preparing documents and more careful in planning time and costs. To map document readiness and critical material points before applying, the IndoHalal.id Halal Consultation service can help you check initial completeness.