INDONESIA - HALAL - 80 Qurban Managements Received Technical Trainings

beritajakarta.com - Together with Indonesia Ulema Council (MUI) and Medicine Faculty of Bogor Agriculture Institute (IPB), East Jakarta Livestock and Fishery Sub-Department gives technical trainings about how to slaughter cattle and handle qurban meat to 80 qurban managements from 40 mosques in East Jakarta. This activity is held in Agriculture Pusdiklat building at Kebon Singkong, Duren Sawit, Tuesday (10/25). In that occasion, East Jakarta Livestock and Fishery Sub-Department also gives donations in form of 40 tarps and 80 carving knifes. (source)

AUSTRALIA - HALAL - Agriculture Minister demands mandatory stunning for cattle

SOUTH Australia will push for the mandatory stunning of all livestock before slaughter, a practice that is not law here even though we have demanded that Indonesia use it.
The proposal will be put to a meeting of agriculture ministers in Perth today by Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Michael O'Brien.

He said yesterday the issue of stunning had been on the agenda for several years without resolution and it was hypocritical of Australia to criticise Indonesia for not stunning livestock imported from Australia when it was not mandatory here. (source)

INDONESIA - HALAL - Indonesia to issue import permits for 180,000 cattle

INDONESIA has announced it will issue permits for the importation of 180,000 cattle and foreshadowed a campaign to upgrade the standards of its slaughterhouses.

The release of the permits for so many beasts just two days after Australia lifted its month-long suspension of the live cattle trade was welcomed by industry figures and surprised some insiders with its speed. (source)