East Java’s biggest dairy farm is owned by Greenfields Indonesia, a company established by a group of Australian and Indonesian entrepreneurs. The farm, with 16,000 cattle, has implemented strict biosecurity measures, despite no cases of the virus being detected there.
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Trade Minister Zulkifli Hasan has urged all city governments to help maintain the availability of food and ensure the stability of prices in their region.
The risk of foot and mouth disease reaching Australia is diminishing as Indonesia suppresses its outbreak, state and territory leaders have been told.
PAIR research teams have begun gathering information to allow for the development of seaweed, a vital commodity to Indonesia.
The Australian livestock industry will work with Indonesian feedlots to help protect their facilities from disease incursions and subsequent trade disruption via a biosecurity support project…
Eight domestic investors have expressed interest in channeling Rp156 billion in funds to develop the fishing industry in eastern Indonesia, the KKP has informed.
The federal government is resisting calls to close Australia’s border to Indonesia over the foot-and-mouth disease threat, after more fragments of the potentially devastating livestock virus were detected in South Australia.
About 7 percent of Indonesia’s 270 million people are estimated to consume dog meat.
Among Asean members, Indonesia issued almost half of all green bonds from 2017-2019. The money raised from green bonds by Asean members goes largely into green buildings and green energy.
The world is battling surging food and energy prices that are contributing to a sharp rise in inflation in many countries, including Indonesia, with inflation reaching 3.55% according to the national statistics agency – the highest rate since 2017.
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo on Thursday said that Indonesia’s domestic production of rice has helped keep the price of the country’s most popular staple food stable.
An outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Indonesia threatens to disrupt a ritual of slaughtering animals to mark the festival of Eid al-Adha this year.
Foot-and-mouth disease, a contagious viral disease for cattle, sheep, goats and pigs, resurfaced in Indonesia in May after the country had been declared free of it for over 30 years.
Several countries have asked Indonesia for rice, hoping the world’s third-largest producer of the grain can help them overcome shortages at home, but experts and farmers see little chance of Indonesia becoming a major exporter in the foreseeable future.
Loaded with a mix of fresh chilli, ginger, garlic, onion and shrimp paste, blachan is a popular relish across Australia’s far north.
Thousands of visitors queued in front of food stalls in Sydney, being served dishes such as nasi padang, ayam penyet, Indonesian style meatballs, to instant noodle-flavored ice cream.
