Business Responsibilities for Food Products in the Don't Have Self Declare Category Halal Label (Case Study in Mataram City)

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the responsibility of business actors towards ingredients that do not yet have a halal label according to positive law and to analyze the inhibiting factors in the responsibility of business actors towards self-declared food products. which does not have a halal label in Mataram City. By using empirical normative legal research methods. The results of this research show that to protect consumer rights, the Consumer Protection Law Number 8 of 1999 and other laws and regulations apply administrative and criminal sanctions to business actors, if business actors are proven to have violated the regulations that have been established in carrying out their activities. or offer its products. Materials that do not yet have a halal label according to positive law, as in Article 8 paragraph (1) letter h UUPK, stipulate that business actors are prohibited from producing and/or trading goods. As stated in the "halal" statement on the label. And Article 4 of Law Number 33 of 2014 concerning Halal Product Guarantees states that products entering, circulating and being traded in Indonesian territory must be halal certified. With this article, all products circulating in Indonesia must have a halal certificate, without exception, products from Micro, Small Enterprises (UMK) which should also have a halal certificate because they are already circulating on the market. Legal responsibility for business actors who do not yet have a halal label for their products. Administrative/administrative sanctions are given , namely sanctions imposed due to administrative violations or legal provisions of an administrative nature, up to fines, revocation of certificates and/or permits, temporary suspension of administrative services up to reduction of production quotas. Inhibiting factors in the responsibility of business actors for self-declared food products which do not have a halal label in Mataram City, the inhibiting factors consist of two factors, namely: a. Internal factors consist of business actors' knowledge of halal certification, knowledge of halal certification obligations and certification costs. b. External factors consist of lack of socialization from the Halal Center Institute at UIN Mataram and lack of consumer awareness.