Indonesia could offer live sheep opportunities to Australia

The potential growth of live sheep exports to Indonesia and other markets has been raised as one way of helping the beleagured West Australian sheep industry. LiveCorp chairman Troy Setter said there was reasonable demand for live sheep in Indonesia and if protocols were developed that would ease the way to grow the industry. "There are breeder sheep and breeder goats that go in there, but we've seen an increase in demand recently particularly from Northern Indonesia, but there's no current protocols for feeder or slaughter sheep or goats to Indonesia," he said. "They have been working on it for a while and there's been a bit of recent spurred interest in it. "There's a huge market opportunity, there are more than 270 million people, the vast majority who are Muslim so they don't eat pork. "All markets so small so it's a pretty exciting opportunity." Australian Livestock Exporters Council CEO Mark Harvey-Sutton said at present sheep can be sent to Indonesia on a permit by permit ...