date:Jul 22, 2013
restrictions on Australian beef and cattle imports in a bid to become self-sufficient.
The policies have hurt both sides with shortages and higher prices in Indonesia, while Australia's northern cattle industry has been in crisis, with weak meat prices and plunging land values further hampered by a drought last summer.
I have signed the new ready-to-slaughter cattle regulation and we have allowed importers to import...with no limits, to stabilise beef prices, Indonesian Trade Minister Gita Wir