JAKARTA – Seeking to make the best of the Udhiyah, Indonesian Islamic organizations are canning the meat to be easier to ship to the needy in remote areas of the Muslim-dominated 17000 island archipelago. "With the canning, the meat would be timeless at least for three years and able to reach remote areas especially for natural disaster locations across the country," Hasnil Hasyim, regional manager of Mozaik, a working unit of Rumah Zakat Indonesia (RZI), told IslamOnline.
"The canned meats can even be retained for stock."
RZI, a leading Islamic charity organization, conserve the meat in cans and distribute the corned meat, known as Superkurban, among the poor across the world's fourth most populous country, with the world's largest Muslim population.
A packaging company, PT Suryajaya Abadi, has received order from RZI to can the sacrifice meat of 11,000 goats and five hundreds cows during `Eid Al- Adha.
"We received the cut meat and already separated the meat from the bones and inside," Cipto Santosa, the company's director, told IOL.
He said the process of canning takes nearly three weeks after the cows and goats are slaughtered and the meats sorted.
"We started to prepare everything after `Eid prayer," he noted.
"We use very modern machine."
All About Udhiyah: Rulings and Conditions
With the canning, the meats would be preserved and hygienic.
According to Hasnil from RZI, more than fifty percent the canned meats would be distributed among regular recipients, 20 percent for incidents and disaster victims, fifteen percent for stock and the rest for the members.
"Our scanned meat was very useful for natural disaster victims."
Indonesia is the fifth biggest country with about 235 million people and Muslims make up some 86.1 percent of the populace.
According to the World Bank, about 100 million Indonesians are living below poverty level, earning one dollar a day.
Cipto said the canning of sacrifice meat is new in Indonesia.
"But most ulemas have seen the benefit aspect of the new concept."
The Indonesian Ulemas Council (MUI) said the new way does not contradict with the teaching of Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him).
"As long as the animals meet the healthy requirement, there is no problem to package the meat," Hafidz Usman, the Head of MUI West Java chapter, told IOL.
MUI Chairman Ma’ruf Amin also supports the canning of Udhiyah meat.
"I think it meets the benefit principles," he told IOL.
According to him, many Indonesians do not eat meat because of poverty and then comes `Eid Al- Adha with redundant quantities of meat.
"So, the new concept can answer the problem."
Principally, Ma’ruf said, people can make ijtihad (personal reasoning) as long as it does not contradict the Noble Quran and the Hadist.
"Canning the meat is a brilliant idea for benefiting the people."
Source: IslamOnline
"The canned meats can even be retained for stock."
RZI, a leading Islamic charity organization, conserve the meat in cans and distribute the corned meat, known as Superkurban, among the poor across the world's fourth most populous country, with the world's largest Muslim population.
A packaging company, PT Suryajaya Abadi, has received order from RZI to can the sacrifice meat of 11,000 goats and five hundreds cows during `Eid Al- Adha.
"We received the cut meat and already separated the meat from the bones and inside," Cipto Santosa, the company's director, told IOL.
He said the process of canning takes nearly three weeks after the cows and goats are slaughtered and the meats sorted.
"We started to prepare everything after `Eid prayer," he noted.
"We use very modern machine."
All About Udhiyah: Rulings and Conditions
With the canning, the meats would be preserved and hygienic.
According to Hasnil from RZI, more than fifty percent the canned meats would be distributed among regular recipients, 20 percent for incidents and disaster victims, fifteen percent for stock and the rest for the members.
"Our scanned meat was very useful for natural disaster victims."
Indonesia is the fifth biggest country with about 235 million people and Muslims make up some 86.1 percent of the populace.
According to the World Bank, about 100 million Indonesians are living below poverty level, earning one dollar a day.
Cipto said the canning of sacrifice meat is new in Indonesia.
"But most ulemas have seen the benefit aspect of the new concept."
The Indonesian Ulemas Council (MUI) said the new way does not contradict with the teaching of Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him).
"As long as the animals meet the healthy requirement, there is no problem to package the meat," Hafidz Usman, the Head of MUI West Java chapter, told IOL.
MUI Chairman Ma’ruf Amin also supports the canning of Udhiyah meat.
"I think it meets the benefit principles," he told IOL.
According to him, many Indonesians do not eat meat because of poverty and then comes `Eid Al- Adha with redundant quantities of meat.
"So, the new concept can answer the problem."
Principally, Ma’ruf said, people can make ijtihad (personal reasoning) as long as it does not contradict the Noble Quran and the Hadist.
"Canning the meat is a brilliant idea for benefiting the people."
Source: IslamOnline
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