Track: Service Engineering and Service Management

Abstract

Facing challenges to lead the halal industry worldwide, Indonesia as the country with the largest Muslim populations in the world has a target to become a major producer in the global halal industry by 2024. By strengthening the halal value chain as one of the strategies, the Indonesian government forces the local entrepreneurs to implement a Halal Assurance System (HAS) and use the halal logo by enacting the law and regulation regarding halal assurance for all products traded in Indonesia including non-food sectors. The urgency of labeling the leather products with halal logo due to the material of these products are derived from animals needs to be studied further by researchers from multi-disciplines. This research aims to conduct a review of the existing literature on HAS and relates them to the issues mainly faced by the leather industry to identify the possible themes and challenges for new research in the field of HAS for non-food products. A total of 20 articles screened from 106 articles retrieved from well-known databases, Emerald, Science Direct, Scopus, and Web of Science in the latest ten years were identified in this study. The review summarizes there are four themes that place in order to be studied comprehensively, the success and barrier factors of implementing HAS for non-food products, the external factors that influence the decision making of implementing HAS, the relationship between HAS implementation and the business performance, and the traceability system to support the HAS practices.