JAKARTA, March 28 (Reuters) - Indonesia will issue new regulations on the labeling of genetically modified organism (GMO) products to ensure consumer protection, a senior government official said on Thursday.

"The director general of food and drug supervision in the near future will issue a decree on a labeling system for GMO products," deputy head of the director general Dedi Fardiaz told reporters on the sidelines of a seminar in Jakarta.

Fardiaz said the new regulation would require every food product with a GMO content higher than five percent to be labeled.

"This is just for precaution...providing information for consumer protection, because there has been no agreement worldwide on how they might be dangerous to health," Fariaz said.

He added that the new ruling would apply to both raw and processed foods and imported food products.