据《雅加达邮报》10月21日报道，政府关于发展检疫岛适应进口牛养殖的规则将于11月颁布。援引安塔拉通讯社消息称，农业部长Andi Amran Sulaiman周三表示，他已将该计划提交给佐科总统，该法案已完成，因此该规则下月就可以颁布。

Andi表示，随着该规则的颁布，将从澳大利亚进口22000头牛到岛上饲养。

他补充到，该规则颁布六个月后，农业部也将颁布一项支撑规则。

他还说道，检疫岛的发展旨在解决印尼对进口牛肉的依赖。

A government regulation on the development of quarantine islands to accommodate imported cattle breeding will be issued in November.

"I have proposed the plan to President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo; the draft has been completed so the regulation can immediately be issued next month," said Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman on Wednesday as quoted by Antara news agency.

The issuing of the regulation, said Andi, would be followed by the import of 22,000 cattle from Australiato be bred on the islands.

He added that six months after the regulation was issued, the ministry would also issued a supporting ministerial regulation.

Andi also said that the islands' development aimed to solveIndonesia's dependency on beef imports.

"So we will buy the 'factory' [cattle] and breed them, instead of [only purchasing] the beef," said Andi.

Previously, the ministry’s quarantine agency chief Banun Sri Harpini said potential quarantine islands could be Naduk Island in Bangka Belitung province, Durian Besar Island in Riau Islands province and Simuang Island in Southeast Sulawesi province, due to their economic and technical viability. Historically, the islands have been free from animal diseases and they have clean water and ecosystems that could support the imported cattle.

At present,Indonesiacan only source live cattle and meat from countries that completely free of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) as declared by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), particularlyAustralia,New Zealand,Canadaand theUS, in line with a previous law passed in 2009. (kes)