JAKARTA – Indonesia’s PT Modern Group will start developing the country’s first halal industrial zone early next year and complete the job in five years, Ignatius Warsito, Deputy Director General for Industrial Region Development at the Ministry of Industry told Salaam Gateway.
The halal zone at Modern Cikande Industrial Estate (MCIE) in Serang in West Java, around 70 kilometers from Jakarta, will be dedicated to halal food and beverages ingredients. The 500-hectare new halal zone will be carved out of the current 3,175-hectare MCIE that was developed by PT Modern Group in the early 1990s.
According to Warsito, the first stage of development of the halal zone will be completed in 2020 and include a halal certification facility with a laboratory, halal waste water treatment plant, and a logistics park.
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