Governor of Bank Indonesia (BI) Perry Warjiyo ensured that Indonesia would focus on developing food and fashion products to encourage the halal economic ecosystem. These two sectors are considered to be the most likely to be developed during the Covid-19 pandemic in all countries in the world.
"I look at the current condition of food and fashion (to be developed) because this is very important," said Perry at the Opening Ceremony Road to ISEF 8th 2021: Halal Products, Beyond Halal Compliance, Jakarta, Monday (21/6/2021).
These two sectors were chosen because they are important needs in human life. Moreover, these two sectors have a long economic chain. Has added value that can be utilized both on a primary and industrial scale.
"Food and fashion are important economic bases. There is a long chain process, value added both primary and industrial," he said.
This is the reason why these two leading sectors are the focus of development in the halal economic ecosystem. However, this does not necessarily mean that the three other priority sectors, such as halal tourism, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals, and green energy, will be eliminated. These three remain the leading sectors that need to be developed.
"Of course we are working on all of this, but for the current conditions it is necessary to make a priority scale," he said.
Process Chain
It's not just a matter of selecting priority sectors. In this case, Perry said that it is necessary to build an integrated process chain from upstream to downstream. Starting from the production process to the marketing stage to the market.
All stages and processes must be carried out by the Indonesian people themselves. He doesn't want people to be selling goods rather than producing them themselves. Because if this is allowed, the added value of the production process cannot be optimized because they prefer to buy imported products for resale.
"So this has to be end to end from production to marketing," he said.
Perry added, Bank Indonesia will provide support in terms of creating a sharia financial ecosystem, in addition to utilizing zakat, infaq, shodaqoh, and waqf. For example, by providing financial literacy in the form of webinars, lifestyle analysis to product marketing processes.
