The National Food Agency mentions the importance of increasing local meat production in Indonesia

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The National Food Agency (Bapanas) expressed the importance of increasing local or domestic meat production. "Therefore, we are pushing back and forth to stop meat imports, we are encouraging domestic meat production to be increased," said Head of Bapanas Arief Prasetyo Adi in Jakarta, Wednesday (13/3/2024). Arief said that the price of meat was high because there was a lot of importing. He gave the example of meat imports today where the price of meat in Australia reached 8.59 Australian dollars, then the exchange rate (currency rate) of the Australian dollar against the Rupiah was above IDR 10,000. "If we depend on imports, the consequences are that when the foreign currency exchange rate against the Rupiah is higher or the price of meat in the country of origin is high, it will directly impact us," he said. Regarding meat imports, of course it has gone through a technical coordination meeting (rakornis) with echelon I ministries/institutions, then ...