date:Sep 22, 2013
are mainly used in the popular Indonesian food staples tempe and tofu, made by small-scale food processors who went on strike this month to protest against rising prices.
The government had already removed soybean import quotas, but it had maintained the need for import permits, which traders say were issued too slowly to react to demand spikes, in a process that was at risk of corruption.
Earlier this week, Indonesia's chief economics minister temporarily scrapped the 5 percent soybean import