Halal Food Industry in Southeast Asia’s Muslim Majority Countries: A Reference for Non-Muslim Countries

Abstract

This paper attempts to discuss Halal food industry in Southeast Asia
and its global role. The increasing number of Muslim tourists in non-Muslim
countries opened an opportunity to develop halal food Indonesia, Malaysia, and
Brunei to become reference for non-Muslim majority countries in developing
this industry. The goal of this paper is to give a reference for non-Muslim
countries in developing similar industry in their home countries. This study
focuses on: (a) understanding halal food, (b) how Muslim majority countries
regulate policy regarding halal food standardization, (c) and, the opportunity
to implementing the similar regulation to the non-Muslim countries. The need
to accommodate Muslims’ food requirements abroad especially in non-Muslim
countries found that some countries have already been promoting halal food.
The growing demands for Halal food for Muslims either visiting or living in
non-Muslim countries can open opportunity for global spread of halal food
industry.