East Java eyes Asia Pasific, Africa to expand halal markets

Tulungagung, E Java (ANTARA) – East Java Province has eyed Muslim-majority countries in Asia Pacific and Africa to expand its halal food export as halal has become a global life style.

“In the midst of the fact that the world’s Muslim population in 2030 is expected to reach 2.158 billion or 26 percent of the world’s total population, our halal product market potential is very huge,” Head of the Economic Affairs Office at East Java Provincial Government Tiat Surtiati Suwardi said here on Saturday.

East Java’s exports of non-oil and gas products have recorded a surplus of US$1.56 billion in 2020.

The export value of food and beverage products has reached US$309 billion. Some 20.1 percent were contributed by the markets of such Muslim-majority countries as Malaysia, Saudi…