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RI-Australia relations do not affect cattle imports
Political relations between Indonesia and Australia, which have become increasingly strained after the execution of two Australian drug traffickers, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, on April 30, do not seem to be affecting Australiaâs plan to export 11,000 cattle to East Kalimantan, an official said
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olitical relations between Indonesia and Australia, which have become increasingly strained after the execution of two Australian drug traffickers, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, on April 30, do not seem to be affecting Australia's plan to export 11,000 cattle to East Kalimantan, an official said.
'Several days ago, East Kalimantan deputy governor Mukmin Faisyal carried out a meeting with representatives of the Australian government. During the meeting, the Australian representatives said their country did not get mixed up between diplomatic relations and partnerships in the husbandry sector,' said the East Kalimantan administration's husbandry agency head, Dadang Sudarya, as quoted by Antara in Samarinda on Sunday.
He said the provincial administration guaranteed that it would distribute 11,000 Brahman cross breed cattle from Australia among local breeding groups in East Kalimantan as originally promised.
Dadang said the discussion took place on the sidelines of a meeting between an Indonesian delegation and several Australian business institutions -- such as Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Department of Primary Industry and Fisheries, the Northern Territory Cattlemen's Association (NTCA), the Northern Territory Livestock Exporters Association (NTLEA), Chamber of Commerce Northern Territory representatives and Charles Darwin University representatives -- in Darwin, Australia, recently.
Dadang said that during the meeting, the government of the Northern Territory, was still committed to fulfilling demands for Brahman cross breed cattle submitted by the East Kalimantan administration.
He said the Northern Territory had paid close attention to the cattle specifications that were requested by the East Kalimantan administration, such as the requirement that 40 percent of the cattle were pregnant.
'So, our program to import 11,000 Brahman cross breed cattle from Australia has so far continued to run,' said Dadang.
'Once the cattle arrive in East Kalimantan, we will straightaway distribute them to hundreds of husbandry groups to support the cattle-oil palm integration program and the cattle integration program in former coal mining areas,' he added. (ebf)
