Awareness and intention to register halal certification of micro and small-scale food enterprises

Abstract

Background: This paper discusses halal awareness of MSE food producers in West Java Province, Indonesia. Halal awareness is the first step toward obtaining halal certificates, which confirm that the product is lawful according to Islamic Sharia. Unfortunately, despite Islam being the religion of most Indonesians, most food sold in the market lacks a halal certificate due to a lack of awareness among food producers about the importance of selling halal-certified foods. Methods: This study aims at measuring the level of halal awareness and the intention of MSE food producers to register halal certification. Halal awareness is assumed to be influenced by knowledge of halal and the food producers’ perception of the benefits of halal certificates. Furthermore, halal awareness, attitudes, and perception of ease of procedures will encourage the intention to register halal certification. An electronic Google Form with a cover letter and a set of questionnaires was distributed to collect data. Partial Least Square - Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) was chosen to evaluate the adopted theoretical models in the exploratory research.. Results: The results show that halal awareness is influenced by knowledge of halal and perception of its benefits. Moreover, halal awareness influences positively the intention to obtain a halal certificate, but the intention is not significantly affected by attitudes to produce halal foods and perception of procedures for obtaining halal certification. This shows that halal awareness will increase the intention to register halal certification. However, misconceptions about the procedures for obtaining halal certificates keep them from registering. Conclusions: MSE food producers in West Java Province, Indonesia have a good level of awareness about halal food. However, their products are not halal-certified due to the perception of the procedures for obtaining halal certificates are relatively complicated and costly for them.

Factors that Influence the Offender’s Decision MSME’s Have a Halal Certificate in the District Bogor

“…The large number of food and beverage MSMEs in Bogor Regency does not directly impact the number of halal certificates submitted. The low number of halal certificates in Bogor Regency is caused by MSMEs who are less interested in having halal certificates due to MSEs' perception of complicated procedures and expensive halal certification costs (Oemar et al 2022 ) . MSMEs also experience several obstacles in carrying out halal certification.…”

“…Halal certification facilities are one of the reasons MSMEs have halal certificates (Khairunnisa et al 2020). In addition, Oemar et al (2022), Ramadhan & Gunanto (2020), and Farhan & Fajar (2021) halal awareness factors, knowing that products that have a halal label can be more widely known by consumers (branding) and knowing that there are regulations regarding the obligation to have a halal certificate for MSMEs, influence MSMEs in obtaining halal certificates. This research aims to identify the characteristics of food and beverage MSME actors who have halal certificates in Bogor Regency based on gender, age, religion, education, sales turnover and length of business establishment, as well as finding out the factors that influence food and beverage MSME actors in Bogor Regency to get a halal certificate.…”

Analisis Faktor-faktor yang Memengaruhi Minat Sertifikasi Halal pada Pelaku UMKM di Jawa Timur

“…Penelitian ini sejalan dengan penelitian yang dilakukan oleh Sari et al, 2021), Ismaya et al (2022), Utami et al (2022) dan Oemar et al (2022) menyatakan bahwa pelaku usaha yang memiliki kesadaran halal akan termotivasi untuk memiliki sertifikat halal sebagai pembuktian bahwa produk yang dihasilkannya terjamin halal. Sehingga kesadaran halal berpengaruh secara signifikan terhadap minat sertifikasi halal.…”

Awareness and intention to register halal certification of micro and small-scale food enterprises

“…A copy of the dataset of the questionnaire result can be found in Underlying Data. 47 There are no missing values, invalid observations, or outliers in this data set, which has a sample size of 137.…”

“…Figshare: List of questions of descriptions of the questionnaire of Awareness and Intention to Register Halal Certification; https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.20488590 . 42 …”