date:Dec 21, 2012
reliance.
This has also led to taxes on imports of wheat flour, corn and soybeans. Last month Yudhoyono put domestic output and control of imports at the heart of a new food law, signalling further policies regulating trade in commodities are likely.
Food should be available and affordable, but now it is not available and not affordable. It will get worse because they are trying to achieve self-sufficiency, said Thomas Sembiring, executive director of the Indonesian Meat Importers Association.