Broken After 32 Years

Indonesia obtained the status of being free of foot-and-mouth disease or FMD in 1990. At the time, the government ran a crash program at great expense.

Aisha Shaidra

May 16, 2022

SOFJAN Sudardjat Djaja Logawa was very upset hearing news that the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) had returned to Indonesia since April. The viral disease, he said, had not been heard of since 1986. In fact, four years later, Indonesia was declared free of FMD by the World Animal Health Organization (OIE). “I am very sad and disheartened,” the former Director-General of Livestock Production Development at the Agriculture Minis

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