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Cattle on the agenda as Australian PM visits Indonesia

05/07/2013
Media in Indonesia have said President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono would use a meeting with newly re-installed Australian prime minister, Kevin Rudd, to address the issue of cattle trade between the two countries. The meeting took place in Bogor, near Jakarta, on July 5.

The trip to Indonesia was Mr Rudd’s first overseas engagement since taking office again at the end of June. He was previously prime minister between 2007 and 2010.

Indonesian officials said that President Yudhoyono wanted to make it clear that his country would like to see greater investment from Australia in the cattle sector in Indonesia for reasons of food supply and food security.

A scandal developed in 2011 over the treatment of Australian cattle in Indonesian abattoirs and since then cattle trade between the two nations has been a point of tension. The Australian government reacted at the time by suspending exports of live cattle from Australian livestock farms.


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