Banda Aceh, Aceh, June 15 -- The Aceh provincial government has worked with the Bank Indonesia office in the city of Banda Aceh to initiate a halal, safe, and healthy culinary zone at Zainoel Abidin Public Hospital (RSUDZA), and claimed it as "the first of its kind in Indonesia."

According to Restu Andi Surya, an expert staff for financial economy and development at the Aceh administration's regional secretariat,the culinary zone, which has so far had 20 food stalls, is situated in the canteen of RSUDZA's cooperative unit.

Seventeen of the 20 culinary small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) running the food stalls had obtained halal certificates while three others still await the halal certification team's final meeting, Surya said in a pr...