Analysts say the high cost of beef is an inevitable side-effect of Indonesia's drive to achieve self-sufficiency in the meat as well as corn, rice, sugar and soybeans by 2014, a policy sparked by the ...

In this Thursday, March, 14, 2013 photo, a vendor cuts meat at his stall in a market in the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia. The price of beef, the main ingredient in bakso, has hit a record high ...

JAKARTA -- Plans by Indonesia's new president to make the nation self-sufficient in foods such as beef are showing signs of backfiring, with a major industry group warning prices for the meat could ...

When authorities discovered a case of mad-cow disease in California last year, Indonesia angered U.S. cattle producers by becoming the first nation to ban beef from the United States. The fallout was ...

JAKARTA, June 29 (Reuters) - Indonesia's anti-monopoly agency has proposed abolishing a cattle import quota system and replacing it with tariffs, in a bid to break the stranglehold of local cartels ...

Brazilian meatpackers can now export their beef to Indonesia following an agreement between the two countries. The successful negotiations, led by Brazil’s Agriculture Minister Tereza Cristina Dias, ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. MARK COLVIN: Australian beef was on the menu literally and metaphorically at a lunch in Jakarta ...

JAKARTA, IndonesiaJAKARTA, Indonesia — Haji Hidayat makes his living selling one of Indonesia’s most popular dishes: a tasty meatball soup known as bakso. Earlier this week, after 22 years he decided ...

JAKARTA, March 4 (Reuters) - Plans by Indonesia's new president to make the nation self-sufficient in foods such as beef are showing signs of backfiring, with a major industry group warning prices for ...