In the past few days, information has gone viral about the sale of Red Wine products under the Nabidz brand which are claimed to be halal certified on social media. Responding to this, the Indonesian Ministry of Religion (Kemenag) Halal Product Assurance Organizing Agency (BPJPH) emphasized that his party has never issued a halal certificate for wine products.
"Regarding the information that online sales of wine products with the Nabidz brand are claimed to be halal certified, we need to emphasize that BPJPH has never issued halal certificates for wine products," said Head of BPJPH, Muhammad Aqil Irham, in a press release, as reported by Republika.co.id , Wednesday (26/7/2023).
Aqil explained, the data on the Sihalal system recorded that there were beverage products with the Nabidz brand that had received a halal certificate from BPJPH. He made sure that the product was not wine or red-wine, but a product of fruit juice drinks.
According to him, the Nabidz brand fruit juice product has been submitted for halal certification on May 25, 2023 through a self-declare mechanism with assistance from the Halal Product Process (PPH) carried out by the PPH Facilitator. This submission was verified and validated on May 25, 2023, with the proposed product in the form of Nabidz brand grape juice or juice. PPH assistants have also ensured that the materials used are halal.
The production process carried out by business actors is also simple, and business actors state that there is no fermentation process in it. The product photos uploaded to Sihalal are also in the form of plastic bottles.
"Based on the results of the PPH Assistance Verval, no violations or discrepancies with the provisions were found. Furthermore, the Fatwa Committee will determine the halal status of the product on June 12, 2023," said Aqil.
Then, continued Aqil, BPJPH received a complaint that the issued Halal Certificate (SH) was in fact used for other products. Aqil emphasized that BPJPH did not justify this. Aqil said that currently BPJPH has deployed a Halal Product Assurance Monitoring team to study the facts on the ground.
“We will do this until the investigation process by the monitoring team is complete. This is part of BPJPH's responsibility in carrying out the task of guaranteeing halal products," said Aqil.
Previously it was known, a post on social media said that the grape juice product with processing techniques using bacteria was halal wine which had received a halal fatwa from the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI). Halal Corner Founder, Aisha Maharani discussed this on her Instagram account @aishamaharani. Aisha shared a screenshot photo from the Instagram account @adityadwuputras which wrote, "Halal wine? How come? Yes! With biotechnology and installed with scientific fiqh, Alhamdulillah it has been made in such a way that it is tested and certified halal by the MUI."
Aisha explained that the MUI did not issue a halal fatwa on products associated with haram. "Nabidz products for the owner of Beni Yulianto certify halal through the halal self-declare route," said Aisha in her upload on Tuesday (25/7/2023).
According to Aisha, this product must be checked first. If it's fermented with a long shelf life, you shouldn't use self-declare. If you use preservatives or flavours, they shouldn't self-declare either. Aisha also revealed that on the BPJPH halal product list it was called fruit juice and grapes, not halal wine.
"Beni Yulianto should not have closed the information on the halal certification number and a complete description of the name of the product," said Aisha.
On her Instagram account, Aisha also criticized BPJPH's policy of the Indonesian Ministry of Religion which had given halal certificates for a number of food products using satanic names, for example, Mie Setan and Kolor Ijo Rempah. These products are indeed halal, but according to him, they use names that contain haraam elements.
“It is not permissible for the name to become a halal product,” said Aisha, as reported by Repubika, (Monday (24/7/2023).
