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Indonesian tanners add to calls for cattle restrictions to ease

30/05/2013
The Indonesia Tanners’ Association (APKI) has joined the calls for the government in Jakarta to make it easier for importers to bring live cattle into the country.

Since a scandal developed in 2011 over the treatment of Australian cattle in Indonesian abattoirs, the number of animals coming into the country from Australia has fallen from an estimated 700,000 a year to a limit of 270,000 head this year.

APKI president, Haryono Sutanto, owner of the Budi Makmur Jayamurni tannery in Yogyakarta, which won Highly Commended in the 2011 programme of Tannery of the Year, said in recent comments to local media that importing live cattle would give tanners easier access to raw materials than current arrangements for importing hides.

He said “a complicated bureaucratic procedure” had built up around hide imports, involving inspections by veterinary professionals that tanners have to pay for before material is released from quarantine centres.


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