Cattle exporters must offer Indonesia more

THE pressure's on Australian cattle farmers, with new laws allowing Indonesia to introduce more competition into its market.

AUSTRALIAN cattle producers face increased competition in their largest live-export market of Indonesia, a conference in Darwin has heard.

BUSTANUL Arifin, a professor of agricultural economics at Indonesia's University of Lampung, says President Joko Widodo's new government will keep trying to reduce Australian cattle imports to avoid becoming too dependent on them.