JAKARTA: Indonesia will issue rules soon that will allow feedmillers to import corn directly once they have secured approval from the Ministry of Agriculture after imports of the grain were disrupted in 2015. “We can’t stop this.
This business needs to make long term plans and policy changes can’t be abrupt,” said Karyanto Suprih, acting Director General of Foreign Trade.
Indonesia, which imports corn mainly from Argentina and Brazil, temporarily stopped issuing corn import permits to feedmillers in July 2015, with the government making a broad push for food self-sufficiency and channelling imports through Bulog, Indonesia’s State Procurement Agency.
