India is Indonesia's second largest importer of beef.
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PKS Faction member of the House of Representatives Commission IV, Slamet, suspects that the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in Indonesian livestock is due to the import of cheap cattle from countries not free from FMD, one of which is India.
"The government prioritizes the economy. This means that even though businesses have rejected imports from countries not free from FMD," said Slamet in a PKS Faction DPR RI Twitter Spaces on Monday (June 13, 2022).
"So, talking about the economy, the imports of cheap cattle from India, although I don't dare say definitively that it's from there because the government hasn't declared it," he continued.
According to data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), Indonesia imported 84,955 tons of beef from India in 2021. This makes India the second largest source of beef imports for Indonesia.
Australia still holds the top rank. In 2021, Indonesia imported 122,863.5 tons of beef from Australia.
The United States is ranked third, sending 25,961 tons of beef to Indonesia. Furthermore, Indonesia imported 17,986 tons of beef from New Zealand.
Indonesia first opened the tap for buffalo meat imports from India in 2016. At that time, the consideration was the cheaper price of meat and to stabilize domestic meat prices.
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