Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle Exceeds 2021 Targets and Focuses on Achieving the Vision 2036

Indonesia’s Minister of Trade, Argus Suparmanto, has identified the need for strategy development and mapping to improve the performance of the Halal industry within the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle (IMT-GT), with a proposition to push the IMT-GT to become a regional and global Halal economic power.

According to a local media report, the IMT-GT has surpassed targets, with 4,054 export-oriented Halal Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in existence at the end of October 2020, compared to a target of 3,000 SMEs by 2021. Therefore, this target has now been revised to 7,000 SMEs by end of 2021.

The number of Halal experts within the IMT-GT has also exceeded its ori...