REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, CILACAP -- Indonesia's dream to become the center of the world's halal economy can be realized soon. Indonesia has quite a lot of strong capital to manifest hopes as the center of the world's halal economy in the future.

Chairman of the Islamic Economic Community (MES) Erick Thohir - who is also the Minister of SOEs (BUMN) - said that during his tenure as Chairman of the MES, there were four excellent programs that had to be implemented. 

Indonesia has a very strong capital or potential to become the world's halal center. "As a country with the largest Muslim population in the world, we are very wrong if we cannot become the world's halal center," said Erick Thohir in Cilacap Regency, Sunday (11/4).

In producing halal food, Indonesia is currently inferior to Brazil, where the majority of its citizens are not Muslim. Brazil has become the number one country in the production of halal food. To that end, Thohir is determined to make Indonesia the center of the halal industry at home and abroad