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Jakarta to build modern poultry slaughterhouses
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The Jakarta city administration has plans to concentrate poultry slaughtering to just a few locations, including some near the city's low-cost apartments.
Jakarta governor Basuki 'Ahok' Tjahaja Purnama said on Thursday that the plan to develop slaughterhouses, which would be equipped with modern technology, was part of an effort to increase the hygiene standards of chicken meat distributed in the city.
"At modern slaughterhouses, operators take three minutes to drip the fowl's blood and they directly throw the fowl to the hot water as it bleeds," Ahok said at City Hall on Thursday.
According to Jakarta Fisheries, Agriculture and Food Security Agency head Darjamuni Taseda, the plan to establish major poultry slaughterhouses is to make it easier for the agency's employees to control the quality of chicken meat being distributed to markets.
He said that the integrated slaughterhouses would be built in five municipalities in Jakarta, starting next year. "We have a one hectare slaughterhouse as our pilot project in Rawa Terate, East Jakarta," Darjamuni said.
To build the integrated slaughterhouses, the agency is cooperating with the Jakarta Housing and Government Building Agency in the design of both the integrated slaughterhouses and low-cost apartments, Darjamuni said.
There are about one million of chickens slaughtered every day in Jakarta, and currently nine different fowl slaughterhouses. (bbn)(+)
