date:Dec 26, 2012
Prices of beef in Indonesia are skyrocketing and the effect of an earlier Australian live cattle ban is being debated in Australia.
However, Australia may be merely the meat in the sandwich in a battle for supremacy in Indonesias meat industry.
The Indonesian government quotas on beef imports have worsened the crisis, says Flora Chrisantie from the Jakarta Beef Committee, which wants the import quotas eased.
It was reported on December 14th December 2012 by the Australian Broadcasting Corpor