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New Policy on Beef Import
Jakarta - Starting April 1, 2011, the Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture will issue a new import policy for beef. Health documents stating the status of meat to be imported into Indonesia must include the Import Approval Document number (SPP), which is also known as the import permit.
Vice Minister of Agriculture, Bayu Krisnamurthi, said this regulation aims to prevent speculation by importers.
The cases of illegal beef import in January 2011 which involved 51 containers equivalent to 9,000 tons of beef and in February 2011 which involved 92 containers equivalent to 1,500 tons of beef are still under investigation. These incidences show there are loopholes for importers, where they import first then apply for the SPP.
“Violations should be addressed with punishment, not by making new [accommodating] policies,” said Bayu on Monday (7/3/2011) in Jakarta.
For 2011 the Ministry of Agriculture opens an import quota for 50,000 tons of beef, extremely lower compared to the amount of beef imported in 2010 which reached 120,000 tons. Beef is imported from Australia, New Zealand, the United States of America, and Canada. (Hermas Effendi Prabowo | Ed. Nasru Alam Aziz)
Source : Kompas