Raw Deals

One prominent member of the Justice and Prosperity Party (PKS) is known to frequently intervene in determining the quota for beef imports. This puts Director-General for Livestock Prabowo Respatiyo in a quandary, particularly when pressured into issuing an import license for a company ‘endorsed’ by a senior official whose party touts the slogan ‘clean, caring and professional.’

June 8, 2011

Last week was an extraordinarily difficult time for Prabowo Respatiyo Caturroso, Director-General for Livestock at the Agriculture Ministry. He has decided to lay low, hiding at the house of a colleague in South Jakarta, in an attempt to avoid a number of beef importers. It seems some people in the meat importing business were pressuring him to issue an SPP or importing license for certain parties. “I was hemmed from the left and the right,”

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