Empowering Micro and Small Enterprises Legal for Halal Certification in Tajungan Village Kamal Bangkalan

Based on the survey , it was found that most of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in Tajungan Village, Kamal District, Bangkalan Regency have not been certified halal. The community service program aims to increase awareness of micro and small businesses registering halal certificates for their products. The method used in this activity is to empower micro and small businesses to actively register their halal product certificates through education and training on halal product assurance and assistance in the halal product process. The instruments used in this activity are pre and post-checklists with awareness indicators and to desire of participants in efforts to issue halal certificates. The target of this activity is the economic community group of 15 participants. The result of this activity is that 99% of micro and small business actors who attended the training increased their legal awareness to complete the documents needed to register the legality of their products and obtain halal certificates in the Sehati program (free halal certificate). This condition increased by 10% after the assistance of the halal product process, where 66% of training participants successfully registered for product legality and halal certificates in the Sehati program. Conclusion: Empowerment with education and assistance increases legal awareness of micro and small business actors at service locations to take care of halal certificates voluntarily


INTRODUCTION
Halal products are the need for Muslims' consumers as their obedience to the prohibition to consume haram (forbidden) material stated in Quran and hadith.Maharadika et.al stressed on the halal guarantee is importance because the processing of food products can appear a critical point of its production.The critical point of halal food production is a stage of food production where there is a possibility for a product to become haram (forbidden), both in terms of materials, production processes, storage and transportation (Mahardika, Nahara and Gunawan, 2022).Therefore, halal protection is urgent to make sure the status of the products enables to be consumed or not.The guarantee of halal products in Indonesia is carried out through regulation of halal certification obligations in the Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 33 of 2014 concerning Guarantees for Halal Products (Undang-undang Jaminan Produk Halal, here after abbreviated as JPH Law).This law emphasizes the obligation of halal certification for all products that enter and circulate in Indonesia.This halal guarantee is carried out through a halal guarantee system that is controlled by the Halal Product Guarantee Government Agency, in Indonesian term called as Badan Penyelenggaran Jaminan Produk Halal abbreviated as BPJPH.The Government agency has authorities to the halal guarantee system including to issue halal certificate and halal label after being audited by Halal Auditor and stated as Halal by Majelis Ulama Indonesia (Indonesia Ulama Council) Hidayatullah stated that halal certification and labeling is a form of transparency for business actors regarding the halal of their products and protection for consumers, especially Muslim consumers.The halal label will make Muslim consumers easier to choose and to distinguish products which one is permissible or forbidden to be consumed in accordance with Islamic teaching (Hidayatullah, 2020).Warto and Samsuri also explained the implication of halal certificate for the producers.It was one of the points for gaining competitiveness in global trade.Halal certification could increase the trust and satisfaction of Muslim consumers, improve the image and competitiveness of a company as well as expand the marketing area (Warto and Samsuri, 2020).Considering the urgency of halal guarantees, JPH Law regulates that all products which are distributed in Indonesia must be completed with halal certificate and halal label, including for Micro and Small Enterprises (hereinafter abbreviated as MSE) products.The MSE products follows a self-declaration mechanism for halal guarantee.The self-declaration mechanism is simpler than the regular mechanism.According to Istihanah and Gemala Dewi, this self- Purbasari, Murni, Azizah, et all declaration mechanism is conducted for supporting the achievement of MSE to accomplish the obligation of halal products guarantee, especially in the food sector.They described that the simplification regulations were made for MSE convenience to obtain their permits establishment of their business and halal certification of their products.(Istianah and Dewi, 2022).Halal certification for MSE is significant not only for Muslim Consumers' protection but also to enhance the MSE products globally achieved thus Puspita et.al held the community services program for halal certification counseling on "Socolat" product of MSE Islamic Boarding School Sumber Daya At-Takwa (Puspita et al., 2021).The implementation of the obligation on halal certification regulated in JPH Law needs supports from the whole community, especially universities.In fact, limited access of information on the mandatory of halal certification impacts to the lack of consumers' awareness of considering the halal logo before consuming the products and to the business actors to apply for halal certificate for their products.Therefore, a service program that focused on MSE education and counseling on registratering MSE products legally and halal guarantees was urgent.This service activity took place in Tajungan Village Kamal District, Bangkalan Regency.This location was chosen on the basis of having the potential for MSE which can be carried out education on halal product guarantees.Tajungan Village Area is a coastal area that has the potential for processed fishery products, especially all kinds of fish crackers.The majority of the village's population work as fishermen.As the village in coastal areas, it has the potential for processed products that need to receive education, counseling as well as assistance related to Halal Product Guarantee for MSE in the village area.The community groups to be addressed are the crackers processing MSE in Tajungan Village.However, even there are a lot of fisheries MSE in the location, none of them are halal certified.Whereas, The Islamic cultural society has not yet affected to the consideration to administer halal certificate.The situations motivated to conduct the community service program to improve legal awareness of MSE in that location to be register in the Sehati (Free of Charge Halal Certification) Program.

General description
The target of the community service program is Micro and Small Enterprisers in Tajungan Village, Kamal District, Bangkalan Regency.Similar to other community program held by Yuyun et.al in Randusari Village, Tajungan Village has identical geographical condition and its potencies in fisheries product.(Yuyun, Idris and Vebrianti, 2022) Mostly, the enterprisers are women.As in general coastal area, the majorities of the demography of Tajungan Village are fisherman.Therefore, the women have a talented to create fisheries products, mostly in form of crackers.As the majority of Maduris are Muslim, the women enterprisers are actually aware of halal in their food processing products.Unfortunately they commonly less formal educated, traditional enterprisers, outdated, lack of motivation to grow up their business, lack of information and mordernization access.Problem Lack of knowledge, digital technology management skills and low business income.

Target solution
The target of this community service program is Micro Small Enterprisers in Tajungan Village to register them for obtaining halal certification of their products amount 15 participant.

METHOD
The community services program uses empowering methods through education and training.First, the educations of the importance of the halal certification were trained into 24 (twenty four) Universitas Trunojoyo Madura students who involve in this program by giving training for advocating Halal Products Processing for Micro and Small Enterprises.They will be certified of Halal Products Processing Counselors.Secondly, empowering Micro and Small Enterprisers and village officers by holding Halal Products Guarantee education and Training, which emphasized on the mandatory of halal certification in Tajungan Village Office.Third, Empowering the Micro and Small to be active for submitting the legal documentation of their business, to make documentation of the halal production process, volutarily submit the requirements to administer halal certificate, to be cooperative for giving information for their products.Forth, empowering by advocating them directly in the process of the verification and validation from the data submitted and the direct observation in the production process.Monitoring them to make sure the implementation of halal standard.That service program aimed to instill user awareness of the importance of product halal labels.
The program focused on the introducing of halal certificates to MSME (Micro, Small and Middle) business actors in Pati Regency to improve their products quality (Hasana et al., 2021).Other community service program on Halal Certification Training was held for UNUSA students who have start-up business.The training purposed to increase their understanding on the importance of halal certification for customer satisfactory (Mardlotillah et al., 2022).Those community services also used education method.Meanwhile, this community service program had identical theme, aim, target and applied the same method with them.As the previous explanation mentioned the methods used in this activity, the result of the method describes briefly in the chart below.The community service program was begun by identifying Micro and Small Enterprisers' problems in Tajungan Village.The preliminary situations in the location of the community program were identified that the village did not have valid data concerning the total number of the existing MSE in this surrounding area.The estimation was almost seventy MSE existed there and none of MSE legally registered and halal certified due to lack of information on the obligation of halal certification and the Sehati Program.
The students then conducted direct observation and informal interviews to the head of Tajungan Village and several home enterprisers.The dialogues proved the preliminary assumption for the targeted comunnity that most of MSE in the village has no legal status because of limited information of the legal procedure.They were very impressive when the community service team offered to facilitate the halal certification.They thought that getting halal certificate were costly.
Therefore, the team educate held training for that for Micro and Small Enterprisers' in Tajungan Village Office.The training aimed to socialize the mandatory of halal certification and the selfdeclare mechanism which is free of charge for MSE.Besides, the training targeted to persuade the Micro and Small Enterprisers to be registered their business and their products to obtain Having gotten the NIB, the students who has been certified as Halal Products Counselors, asked the data and documents for registering halal certification.The requirements consisted of the detail of the ingredients, the tools and the processing method.The counselors continued the process with registering the through the website sihalal.During the program, seven micro and small enterprisers from fifteen participants have been applied for getting halal certification.It meant 50 % (fifty percents) of the participants of the training joined the registration for Sehati (free of charge halal certification) program.They empower themselves to be active in administering halal certificate for their products by being active to submit the administrative requirements to halal counsellors, and being cooperative when the halal conducted in the verification and validation documents of the halal production process.During the monitoring of the process, it encouraged three other MSEs or 20 % (twenty percent) of the pasticipant enroll the Sehati program.Thus, totally, 70% (seventy percents) of the participants voluntarily register their product legally to obtain halal certification in Sehati Program.The rest of 30% percent of the participants were still unwilling to join this program although persuasive approaches had been done by the village apparatus).

CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
The Community Services Program succeeded to socialize halal product guarantee and the mandatory of halal certification included for Micro and Small Enterprises' product in Tajungan Village, Kamal District, Bangkalan Regency.It had impacted to increase the enterprisers' awareness to apply for halal certificate.It was proven by even after the program held, other enterprisers were interested also to join be registered their business for getting halal certificate.Totally, ten enterprisers or 70 % (seventy percents) of the participants have been assisted for applying halal certificate.Therefore, the empowring method by training and educating succeeded to improve their legal awareness to register halal certification.Thus, it recommended that the training for the self-declaration mechanism for MSE halal certification products should be continued in another locations as they are possibly lack understanding that it is free of charge.By persuasive educating, it will build up their own willingness to join for halal certificate registration.
.33086/cdj.v7i1 Empowering Micro and Small Enterprises Legal for Halal Certification in Tajungan Village Kamal Bangkalan Purbasari, Murni, Azizah, et all halal certificate.This training was attended by eleven women enterprisers (seven from Tajungan Village Kamal Bangkalan, eight from Tanjung Jati Village Kamal Bangkalan).It was estimated that the training was attended only 15% percent of the population of the MSE in the location.Their attendance was influenced by the supporting of legal apparatus who invited and persuaded them to join this program.Nevertheless, during the training, they were very enthusiastic to learn the training material.They also voluntarily had willingness to be registered their product legally and to get halal certification.The training was continued by giving direct assistance for MSE to be legally registered.The students were collected the requirements namely, identity card, family card, marital act.They Community Development Journal (hal: 15.33086/cdj.v7i120 Empowering Micro and Small Enterprises Legal for Halal Certification in Tajungan Village Kamal Bangkalan Purbasari, Murni, Azizah, et all begun registering their tax ID number and registering them in Online Single Submission (OSS) to obtain business identification number (usually abbreviated in Indonesian terminology as NIB).
Chart 1 The Implementation Result of The Community Service Method Picture 1 Halal Councellors Training and Direct Interview to the Head of the Village Empowering Micro and Small Enterprises Legal for Halal Certification in Tajungan Village Kamal Bangkalan Purbasari, Murni, Azizah, et allRESULTS AND DISCUSSION