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Chinese bird's nest market ‘wide open’ to Indonesia

Indonesian bird's nest exports to China nearly doubled last year, driven by rising demand for the product as nutritious food.

Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman and Norman Harsono (The Jakarta Post)
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Chinese bird's nest market ‘wide open’ to Indonesia A worker holds up a packet of processed swallow’s nest at Ahmad Yani International Airport in Semarang, Central Java, on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2020. The packets were headed for Hong Kong ahead of a demand spike nearing Chinese New Year. (BKP Semarang/BKP Semarang)

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hree Indonesian ministers sent off a ship carrying Rp 9.9 billion (US$686,113.47) worth of swiftlet’s nests to China last week as part of Indonesia’s efforts to boost exports of the product to the world’s second-largest economy.

Agriculture Minister Syahrul Yasin Limpo, one of the three ministers present, said the government would focus particularly on promoting swiftlet’s nest exports because China did not have an import quota on the product.

China imposes import quotas on many commodities, such as coal, oil, wheat, rice and corn.

The agriculture minister was accompanied by the trade minister and the state-owned enterprises (SOEs) minister.

“The market is wide open, and we have the production capacity,” said the minister in a statement on March 13, a day after the ship departed from Teluk Lamong Terminal in Gresik, East Java.

The statement noted that East Java had 84 houses that produced the nests and had nine processing plants that cleaned and packaged the nests.

Left to right: East Java Governor Khofifah Indar Parawansa, SOEs Minister Erick Thohir, Agriculture Minister Syahrul Yasin Limpo and Trade Minister Muhammad Lutfi send off ship cargoes carrying various goods including coffee, cloves and bird's nest from Teluk Lamong Terminal in Gresik, East Java,  on March 12, 2021.
Left to right: East Java Governor Khofifah Indar Parawansa, SOEs Minister Erick Thohir, Agriculture Minister Syahrul Yasin Limpo and Trade Minister Muhammad Lutfi send off ship cargoes carrying various goods including coffee, cloves and bird's nest from Teluk Lamong Terminal in Gresik, East Java, on March 12, 2021. (Agriculture Ministry/Agriculture Ministry)

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