Global Halal Summit (GHaS) Kuala Lumpur 2026: The Buyer's Playbook (September 2026)

The Global Halal Summit (GHaS) 2026 runs 21–22 September 2026 at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC), hosted by the Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (JAKIM). Read this as another trade-show diary entry and you'll misread the event. GHaS is not a showroom — it is a policy summit and a halal-governance gathering. The buyers it serves are picking up a sharper read of where the global halal regulatory map is moving, who the decision-makers are inside the certifying bodies that gate their target export markets, and which partnership-level relationships are worth twelve months of business development.

Past editions have drawn delegates from 40+ countries spanning the GCC, ASEAN, EU and the wider OIC, with networking reach into 80+ foreign halal certification bodies. The 2026 theme — "Integrity, Sustainability, Resilience" — frames the harmonisation, traceability, and inter-regional recognition agenda JAKIM and partner regulators are pushing.

This playbook is written for the strategic buyer: procurement directors evaluating cross-border supplier networks; business development leads building five-year market-entry plans; government-relations roles working bilateral halal recognition; certification managers re-papering supplier compliance under shifting regional rules; investment teams underwriting halal-economy bets. Booth-walking food buyers should read the companion MIHAS Malaysia 2026 buyer's playbook instead — MIHAS runs the same week (23–26 September) and is the larger transactional show.

For most strategic buyers, the back-to-back GHaS + MIHAS week is the single most leveraged trip in the 2026 halal calendar. GHaS gives you the policy and partnership layer; MIHAS gives you the transactional follow-through. For the official event detail page, see Global Halal Summit (GHaS) on HalalExpo.

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What GHaS Is — and Why a Summit Differs from a Trade Show

The Global Halal Summit (GHaS) is JAKIM's flagship halal-diplomacy platform. Hosted by the Department of Islamic Development Malaysia under the Government of Malaysia, it pulls together global halal certification bodies, Shariah experts, government regulators, accreditation officials, and industry leaders for two days of dialogue, training, structured matchmaking, and policy work. The official site is at myghas.com; HalalExpo's listing is at /events/ghas-kuala-lumpur.

Where a traditional halal trade show — MIHAS, Saudi International Halal Expo, Gulfood's halal section — pulls together exhibiting suppliers and visiting buyers across a wide exhibition hall built for product discovery and order writing, a summit pulls together a smaller, more senior, more credentialed delegate pool around plenaries, panels, ministerial keynotes, sector deep-dives, side-meetings, and a recognition stream. There is no booth-walking. There are sponsor zones and partner showcases — but the "floor" is replaced by curated meeting rooms and structured matchmaking sessions.

Three practical implications matter for trip planning:

The room is smaller, more senior, more strategic. GHaS does not publish a 50,000-visitor headline number — that's not what it's built for. A summit's value is measured by the seniority of the room, not foot traffic. Past editions have drawn government ministers, heads of national halal certification bodies, accreditation body chiefs, and senior Shariah auditors. If you attend planning to scan 200 booths in 30 seconds each, you'll leave wondering what happened. If you attend planning ten 45-minute conversations with people who shape your regulatory environment, the trip pays for itself.

The currency is relationships and policy intelligence, not catalogues. Buyers leave GHaS with a shifted internal map: which certifiers are aligning on which regional standard; which countries are about to tighten mutual recognition; which government programmes fund which kinds of supplier development. None of that fits in a booth interaction; all of it fits in side-meetings, coffee breaks, and evening dinners.

Decisions take longer to convert but are larger when they land. A MIHAS booth can close a 20-tonne meat order in three meetings over three days. A GHaS side-meeting can land a five-year cross-border supply partnership, a market-entry partnership, or a certification harmonisation pilot. Different magnitude, longer cycle. That is the "strategic buyer" — the buyer whose unit of decision is the partnership or the market entry, not the line-item purchase order.

Dates, Venue, Format — the Practical Facts

The hard facts a buyer needs for diary, flights, and visa:

• Dates: 21–22 September 2026 (Monday to Tuesday). Two intensive days — plenaries, panels, capacity-building workshops, structured matchmaking, and evening networking. Plan 09:00 starts and 21:00 evening finishes. Sunday arrival and Wednesday transition (to MIHAS) are where serious side-meetings get scheduled.
• Venue: Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC) in central KL, adjacent to the Petronas Twin Towers. Walking distance to major business hotels (Mandarin Oriental, Shangri-La, Grand Hyatt, Traders KL). ~60 minutes from Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KUL) by car or 28 minutes by KLIA Ekspres.
• Organiser: Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (JAKIM). Official site: myghas.com; registration: registration.myghas.com. JAKIM's certifier profile: JAKIM on HalalExpo.
• Theme (2026): "Integrity, Sustainability, Resilience" — framing the harmonisation, traceability, and inter-regional recognition agenda.
• Programme pillars: Past editions have organised content around three named tracks — HCBC (Halal Certification Bodies Convention), IHTCDP (International Halal Technical Capacity Development Programme), and TGHT (Trade and Global Halal Track). The 2026 programme will be published by JAKIM closer to the date.
• Registration: Through the official portal. Pre-register and pre-book matchmaking slots 4–6 weeks ahead — walk-up matchmaking yields are materially lower at a summit format.
• Visa for Malaysia: Most ASEAN, GCC, EU, UK, US, Canada, Australia, NZ, Japan, Korea, and Turkey passports enter visa-free for 30–90 days. Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and others need eVisa/visa-on-arrival — apply 3–4 weeks ahead. See the Malaysia country profile.
• Official partner hotel: Shangri-La Kuala Lumpur has historically hosted exclusive forums and VIP gatherings. Other premium options within 10–15 minutes of KLCC: Mandarin Oriental, Grand Hyatt, Traders KL. Book 4–6 weeks ahead.
• Currency: Malaysian Ringgit (MYR).

Who Attends GHaS — the Delegate Profile You Should Plan to Meet

The GHaS attendee mix is structurally different from a trade-show floor. Based on JAKIM's published profile and past-edition reach, the delegate pool breaks down approximately as follows:

Foreign Halal Certification Bodies (FHCBs). GHaS positions itself as the gathering point for foreign halal certification bodies recognised or seeking recognition by JAKIM. Past editions reference 80+ FHCBs in attendance. This is the highest-leverage delegate group for a strategic buyer: these bodies' certification marks gate your supplier paperwork across every market you sell into. Twenty minutes with the head of a certifier you don't currently work with — scope, mutual recognition footprint, fee schedule, audit cadence — can reshape your supplier shortlist for a target market. The HalalExpo certifier directory covers 104 certifiers with scope and recognition lists; use it to pre-shortlist which conversations matter most.

Government regulators and ministry officials. Ministerial-level delegations from ASEAN, GCC, OIC member states, and observer countries — the officials whose policy decisions become next year's import rules. For buyers whose supply chains touch Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Pakistan, Nigeria, or Kazakhstan, the regulator track is where you spot regulatory shifts 12–18 months early.

Shariah auditors and scholars. The technical religious authority layer. Critical for buyers in pharmaceutical, biotech, cosmetics ingredient, and gelatin-alternative segments — see halal pharmaceutical gelatin alternatives and halal gelatin alternatives.

Accreditation body representatives. SMIIC, IHAF, and regional accreditation bodies that sit above the certifiers and shape the rules governing certifier conduct. The highest-altitude conversations at the summit and the ones most worth senior business development time.

Halal industry leaders and trade partners. Senior commercial leadership from halal-economy companies, B2B procurement teams from large grocery and foodservice buyers, Islamic finance institutions, halal logistics and cold-chain operators, halal-compliant packaging suppliers.

Geographic mix. 40+ countries spanning ASEAN, the GCC at ministerial level, South Asia (Pakistan, Bangladesh), African halal markets (see Africa briefing), Central Asia (see Central Asia briefing), and EU policy observers. B2G + B2B, not B2C — treat the delegate list accordingly.

The GHaS + MIHAS Back-to-Back Week — the Key 2026 Insight

The most strategic fact about the 2026 halal calendar is that GHaS and MIHAS land in the same week in Kuala Lumpur. GHaS runs Monday–Tuesday (21–22 September 2026) at KLCC; MIHAS runs Wednesday–Saturday (23–26 September 2026) at MITEC. The pairing is deliberate — it lets visiting buyers cover policy + transactional in a single trip.

The implication for a strategic buyer is straightforward: fly in for both. One transcontinental flight, one week of hotel cost, one week out of the office covers the policy and partnership layer (GHaS) and the supplier-sourcing layer (MIHAS) of your 2026 halal procurement plan.

Practical structure:

• Sunday 20 September: Arrive KL. Early evening: informal dinner with priority FHCB contacts and ministerial delegation hosts — relational groundwork for formal summit conversations.
• Monday 21 September: GHaS Day 1 — plenaries, opening keynote, capacity-building sessions, first matchmaking round, evening reception.
• Tuesday 22 September: GHaS Day 2 — sector deep-dives, second matchmaking, closing plenary, recognition stream. Evening: transition logistics.
• Wednesday 23 September: MIHAS Day 1 at MITEC. Morning: orientation walk. Afternoon: anchor meetings with suppliers your GHaS conversations surfaced.
• Thursday–Saturday 24–26 September: MIHAS Days 2–4 — full sourcing programme per the MIHAS buyer's playbook.

Buyers who attend only MIHAS leave with a list of suppliers. Buyers who attend GHaS + MIHAS leave with suppliers plus certifier-side intelligence to verify supplier paperwork in real time, plus regulator-side relationships to spot the next 12 months of compliance shifts, plus FHCB conversations that open new sourcing geographies. The marginal cost is small; the marginal value of the partnership-level conversations is large.

For buyers who can only justify one event: GHaS if your role is policy, compliance, certification, market-entry, or partnership-led. MIHAS if your role is sourcing, ingredient procurement, or order-writing. The book-end pair if you can engineer it.

Indonesia BPJPH, GCC Harmonisation, OIC Recognition — Why GHaS 2026 Is the Policy Window

GHaS lands at a regulatory pivot point that materially shapes halal sourcing strategy across multiple major markets. Three policy threads worth tracking specifically at the 2026 summit:

Indonesia's BPJPH mandatory regime tightening through 2026–2027. Indonesia's Mandatory Halal Certification Law (UU 33/2014) made halal certification compulsory for food and beverage products in October 2024, with phased extensions to cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and traditional medicine. Enforcement is tightening through 2026: BPJPH is ramping inspections, the mutual recognition list with foreign certifiers is under active negotiation, and penalties are moving from warnings to product withdrawal and import refusal. Foreign suppliers without BPJPH-recognised certification face closure of Indonesia's 280-million-consumer market. See our Indonesia Halal Market Entry Guide. At GHaS, the BPJPH track is where you get current intelligence on which foreign certifiers are next for mutual recognition, audit-standard direction, and which sectors fall under enforcement next.

GCC harmonisation under the GSO/GAC framework. The Gulf Cooperation Council has been progressively harmonising halal certification under the Gulf Accreditation Center (GAC) and SFDA-led standards. The mutual-recognition list of foreign certifiers approved for GCC import is dynamic; Saudi Arabia in particular has tightened import requirements through SFDA. See our Saudi halal food export guide and GCC halal food market briefing. At GHaS, the GCC delegation conversations are where you get ahead of next-year recognition list changes.

OIC-wide SMIIC standards uptake. SMIIC publishes the OIC's reference halal standards (OIC/SMIIC 1, 2, 3 and the expanding family). National certifiers across OIC member states are at varying stages of formal SMIIC alignment. The strategic question for a buyer is which markets will move toward SMIIC alignment in the next 18 months — because once a country aligns, certification from a SMIIC-conformant certifier becomes the path of least resistance for import paperwork. That conversation happens at GHaS in a way it does not happen anywhere else.

Pre-Summit Prep — 30-Day Strategic Buyer Checklist

A productive GHaS is built in the four weeks before you fly. The buyers who leave with new partnerships and shifted internal maps are the ones who arrived with a delegate list, a matchmaking calendar, and a clear set of policy questions — not the ones who arrived planning to "see who's there."

Days 30–22: Delegate Map and Outreach

1. Pull the delegate list and confirmed speaker roster as published. JAKIM publishes confirmed speakers and ministerial delegations on the official site as the date approaches. Cross-reference with the HalalExpo certifier directory to identify which FHCB heads, accreditation officials, and regulator contacts matter most to your sourcing geographies.
2. Build a target meeting list of 12–20 priority contacts. Split by must-meet (8–10 where the conversation could reshape a 2027 sourcing or market-entry plan), want-to-meet (5–8 for added intelligence), and watch-from-distance (worth their plenary remarks but no side-meeting needed). Depth not breadth — don't try to meet 50.
3. Email each priority contact to request a side-meeting. One-paragraph note: who you are, your role, the specific business reason, the time window (20–30 minutes during a break, lunch, or reception). Senior delegate calendars fill 4–6 weeks ahead. Email early.
4. For FHCB conversations: prepare a specific certification scope question. The conversation that gets remembered is the one where you arrive with specifics — "we're evaluating switching Indonesian gelatin supply to a SMIIC-conformant body recognised by BPJPH; which of your audit scopes covers gelatin, timeline and cost?" — not a generic introduction.

Days 21–14: Onboard the Matchmaking Platform

1. Register on the official matchmaking platform as soon as it opens. Summit matchmaking is structured: delegates fill profiles, the platform proposes matches, slots are booked in dedicated meeting rooms. Walk-up matchmaking yields far lower than at a trade show — senior delegate calendars are already booked.
2. Fill your matchmaking profile with specificity. Generic profiles get generic matches. State your sourcing geographies, product categories, certification preferences, deal sizes, and the partnerships you're looking for.
3. Accept and book matches as the system surfaces them. Aim for 6–10 platform-confirmed meetings across the two days — the realistic capacity for substantive conversations given sessions and side-meetings.
4. Prepare a one-page company brief as leave-behind for every meeting. Who you are, what you source, where you sell, what you're looking for at GHaS, the specific ask. Senior delegates want a one-pager that signals you've done your homework — not a 12-slide deck.

Days 13–0: Logistics, Calendar, Final Prep

1. Book flights, hotel, and ground transport for the full GHaS + MIHAS week. For back-to-back attendees: 7 nights (Sunday 20 to Sunday 27 September). Hotel-stay continuity matters — switching mid-week burns half a day.
2. Pre-register for GHaS and MIHAS separately. Different platforms, different delegate badges. Both before you fly.
3. Build your session attendance calendar. Two days, ~12 plenary and panel slots, matchmaking blocks, side-meeting flex. Colour-code priority plenaries, matchmaking blocks, must-meet side-meetings, and protected white-space for ad-hoc conversations. Block ~25% for unscheduled side-meetings — the best GHaS conversations often happen in the coffee break after a panel.
4. Confirm all priority meetings 48 hours before. Calendars shift at summits more than at trade shows because ministerial delegations move on flexible diplomatic schedules.
5. Print 30 business cards, pre-read JAKIM's position papers, pack chargers and a notebook. For ministerial-level and senior FHCB contacts a paper card remains the operating expectation; the conversations you don't write down are the ones you'll forget.

On-Site Playbook — Day 1, Day 2 Summit Strategy

A two-day summit format demands a different on-site rhythm to a four-day trade show. There is no Day 1 "soft start" and no Day 4 closing-day commercial discount window. Every session matters; every break matters; every evening matters. Plan accordingly.

Day 1 (Monday) — Opening, Anchor Meetings, Setting the Year's Direction

• Arrive at KLCC by 08:30 for registration and orientation. Pick up badge, programme, matchmaking refresher materials, venue map. Spend 15 minutes locating the meeting rooms used for matchmaking and side-meeting blocks — you'll move between them fast.
• Attend the opening plenary and ministerial keynote. This is where JAKIM and partner regulators set the year's direction publicly. Hearing how the room reacts, who applauds what, and which government delegations frame which initiative is contextual intelligence you cannot get elsewhere.
• Take your highest-priority FHCB side-meetings before lunch. Morning energy is high; senior delegates are fresh; rooms aren't over-booked. Anchor your day around two or three.
• Attend the first capacity-building or technical session relevant to your scope. The IHTCDP-style technical tracks publish current best-practice guidance on audit, traceability, and standards alignment. A 45-minute session can save your compliance team three weeks of independent research.
• Use lunch as a meeting slot. Pre-book a lunch with one priority contact. Sit-down conversations move relationships further than coffee-break ones.
• Afternoon: first structured matchmaking block. Take platform-confirmed meetings back-to-back where scheduled, with 5-minute notes-and-reset breaks between.
• Evening networking reception. Attend. This is where formal-meeting relationships move into "we should talk again." Stay to 21:00; the last 90 minutes are often the most substantive, after protocol loosens.

Day 2 (Tuesday) — Deep-Dives, Second Matchmaking, Closing

• Morning: sector deep-dive tracks. Parallel tracks on specific sectors (food, pharma, cosmetics, logistics, finance) and policy threads (mutual recognition, traceability, sustainability). Pick one and stay in it — track-hopping costs the depth that makes the conversation worth attending.
• Midday: second structured matchmaking round. Take meetings you couldn't fit Day 1, plus any Day 1 contacts you want to deepen.
• Afternoon: sit in on at least one panel outside your immediate sector. The cross-pollination is a real summit benefit — an F&B buyer attending one pharma panel often comes away with sourcing intelligence in unexpected places.
• Closing plenary and awards. The recognition stream highlights FHCBs, certifiers, and partners with notable contributions in the year — useful signal when evaluating which relationships to deepen. The closing remarks typically preview the following year's theme.
• Evening: ministerial or partner dinners. Attend any invitation. Tuesday-night closing dinners disproportionately produce concrete partnership outcomes 6–12 months later.

Wednesday Morning Bridge — If You're Continuing to MIHAS

08:00–09:30: write up your full GHaS notes while vivid, identify the suppliers your GHaS conversations surfaced that you want to meet at MIHAS, rebook or confirm MIHAS meeting slots for the afternoon. Then transition to MITEC and start MIHAS Day 1 with GHaS-warmed contacts as your anchors.

Post-Summit — How to Convert GHaS Conversations into Partnerships

A summit's value is measured not on the day but in the 90 days after. The conversion units are different from a trade show — partnerships, market-entry plans, certification pivots, multi-year supplier programmes — so the follow-up cycle is longer and the touch points are more deliberate.

Week 1 — Triage, Write-Up, First Follow-Up

1. Write up every meeting within 48 hours of landing home. Memory degrades fast. For each contact: who they are, what their organisation does, what you discussed, the specific next step, and what your internal team needs to do to move it forward.
2. Triage into Tier 1 (formal partnership conversations), Tier 2 (informational exchange), Tier 3 (file for context). A two-day summit typically produces 3–6 Tier 1 contacts. Be honest — pushing too many into Tier 1 dilutes follow-up.
3. Send a personalised follow-up email to each Tier 1 contact within five working days. Reference the conversation specifically, attach committed materials, propose the next concrete step — a call, documentation exchange, or in-country meeting. Generic "great to meet you" emails go nowhere with senior delegates.
4. For FHCB contacts: request the audit scope and recognition list documentation you discussed. The certifier's speed and willingness to produce the package is itself a signal of how serious the working relationship will be.

Weeks 2–4 — Internal Alignment and Documentation Exchange

1. Brief your internal team on the policy intelligence you collected. Compliance, regulatory affairs, sourcing, and senior leadership all need the relevant subset on Indonesia BPJPH direction, GCC harmonisation timing, SMIIC alignment, and FHCB recognition list shifts. Convert intelligence into action items.
2. Move Tier 1 FHCB conversations to formal scope conversations. Scope confirmation, audit fee schedule, audit calendar availability, mutual recognition documentation. Treat as the start of a formal evaluation, not a casual exchange.
3. Schedule in-country meetings for any partnership worth deeper diligence. A regulator who said "come see us in Jakarta" or a certifier who said "spend a day with our audit team in Istanbul" is offering a serious next step. Book the trip while momentum is fresh.

Months 2–6 — Partnership Conversion

1. Run Tier 1 conversations through your internal go/no-go process. Most won't convert — that's normal at the strategic-buyer level. The two or three that do tend to justify the trip several times over.
2. Maintain Tier 2 contacts through the year via periodic intelligence exchange. A quarterly note with relevant policy or market intelligence keeps the relationship warm without over-asking. These often become Tier 1 in a future cycle.
3. Plan the following year's GHaS with this year's outcomes in mind. Buyers who get most from GHaS are repeat attendees treating the summit as a relationship-management rhythm, not a one-off intelligence exercise. Second-year conversations are materially deeper.

How GHaS Compares to Other Global Halal Events

To put GHaS in context against the rest of the 2026 calendar:

• GHaS (KL, Sept 2026): Halal-governance summit. Best for policy, partnership, certification, market-entry, regulatory-affairs buyers.
• MIHAS (KL, Sept 2026): Largest halal-only trade show globally. Best for sourcing, procurement, supplier-discovery — see the MIHAS buyer's playbook.
• Istanbul Halal Expo / World Halal Summit: Second-largest halal summit globally, SMIIC-anchored — see the Istanbul guide. Complementary to GHaS for European, MENA, and Turkic markets.
• Saudi International Halal Expo (Riyadh): SFDA-anchored, GCC market entry focus — see the Saudi guide.
• Gulfood (Dubai, February): Massive food show with significant but not exclusive halal section — see the Gulfood halal guide.
• HALALFEST and the Singapore halal calendar: ASEAN halal trade gateway — see the Singapore guide.

For the full calendar see our Top Halal Trade Shows 2026 calendar and the Halal Expo 2026 complete guide.

Why JAKIM Hosting Matters

One contextual point that often goes unsaid in event marketing but matters for how a buyer should interpret GHaS: JAKIM hosts the summit, and that is not incidental. JAKIM operates one of the most widely recognised halal certification marks globally, with reciprocal recognition arrangements covering Indonesia's BPJPH, several GCC bodies, and a growing list of OIC member-state regulators. The delegate room — certifiers, regulators, FHCB officials — is attending an event hosted by the most operationally credible halal certifier in the world. That is why Malaysia continues to operate as the gateway halal hub into the 57 OIC countries: the certification ecosystem, regulatory leadership, and diplomatic infrastructure all sit in one place. GHaS is where that ecosystem convenes.

FAQ

When and where is GHaS 2026?
GHaS 2026 runs 21–22 September 2026 at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC), Malaysia. Two days, Monday and Tuesday. Hosted by the Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (JAKIM). Registration runs through the official portal at registration.myghas.com.

Is GHaS a trade show or a summit?
GHaS is a summit — a policy and capacity-building gathering of certification bodies, regulators, Shariah experts, and industry leaders. There is no traditional exhibition floor with hundreds of booths. The format is plenaries, panels, capacity-building workshops, structured matchmaking, and side-meetings. If you are looking for a traditional booth-walking experience, MIHAS (the same week) is the right event.

Who should attend GHaS as a buyer?
Procurement directors, business development leads, government-relations roles, certification and compliance managers, regulatory-affairs teams, and investment teams underwriting halal-economy bets. The summit is structured for senior decision-makers whose unit of decision is the partnership or market-entry plan, not the individual purchase order.

Can I attend both GHaS and MIHAS in the same trip?
Yes — and this is the most leveraged way to play the September 2026 halal week. GHaS runs Monday–Tuesday (21–22 September) at KLCC; MIHAS runs Wednesday–Saturday (23–26 September) at MITEC. The two events are deliberately calendar-paired to let visiting buyers cover policy + transactional in a single trip. See §4 above for the practical back-to-back schedule.

How does the GHaS matchmaking work?
Summit matchmaking runs through the official platform: delegates complete profiles, the platform proposes matches, and meeting slots are booked in dedicated meeting rooms or curated lounges across the two days. Walk-up matchmaking at a summit yields materially lower than at a trade show because senior delegate calendars are pre-booked. Register on the platform 4–6 weeks ahead and aim for 6–10 platform-confirmed meetings.

Do I need a visa for Malaysia?
Most ASEAN, GCC, EU, UK, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, and Turkey passport holders enter Malaysia visa-free for 30–90 days. Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and several other passports require an eVisa or visa-on-arrival — apply 3–4 weeks ahead. See the Malaysia country profile for current entry rules.

How does GHaS relate to JAKIM certification?
GHaS is hosted directly by JAKIM, which is also the certifier behind the JAKIM halal mark. The summit is positioned as JAKIM's flagship halal-diplomacy platform under the Government of Malaysia. Past editions have drawn 80+ foreign halal certification bodies (FHCBs) as delegates, alongside ministerial-level government regulators from 40+ countries. For the certifier-side context, see the JAKIM certifier profile.

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