Luhut wants Indonesia to import live cattle from Brazil

Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia - Indonesia's Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment (Menko Marves), Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan wants Indonesia to immediately open the tap to import live cattle from Brazil. This is done to reduce the high price of beef in the country. Previously, Indonesia had also imported beef from Brazil. Luhut said he had also discussed this with President Joko Widodo. "So far, we have only imported meat from Australia, then buffalo meat from India, so the price is always above IDR 100,000 per kg. I reported to the president that if we came from these 3 sources, the meat price should be below IDR 100,000 per kg , and that's what happened," said Luhut in his official Instagram upload @luhut.pandjaitan, as quoted on Wednesday (30/8/2023). As if cultivating bad seeds, said Luhut, it turns out that the regulations that were made by Indonesia itself were what created the problem. "It turns out that we ourselves are causing problems with our own regulations. ...