AUSTRALIAN BANS ON ALL LIVE CATTLE IMPORT AND EXPORT TO INDONESIA AND THE IMPACT ON TRADE COOPERATION BETWEEN TWO COUNTRIES.

In June 2011, the Australian government temporarily banned all exports of live livestock to Indonesia in response to footage released of the slaughter of inhuman cattle. The ban, although it appears legally justified, is a commercially unwise decision that causes immediate difficulties for Indonesian cattle ranchers, exporters and consumers. The resulting impact of this decision made bilateral relations between Indonesia and Australia not fully run well. In terms of economic cooperation between the two countries, Australia has lost a portion of its market share of its cattle exports to Indonesia, while Indonesia has lost its supply of cattle to meet the needs of cattle in Indonesia, where Australia has a major role to fulfill. Under these conditions the Indonesian government actually already has a plan for self-sufficiency in cattle for the next few years, but the implementation has not yet been implemented. This case emerged with the encouragement of pressure from some groups such as the Australian Standards for the Export of Livestock (ASEL) which pushed the Australian government to take action because the Indonesian side did not follow the predetermined standards (ASEL). On the other hand, some of the Australian breeders themselves get the impact because of the temporary termination of cooperation in terms of Australian cattle exports to Indonesia, however, from this case there are only losses for both parties and they are considered to have paid less attention to bilateral relations between the two countries.