"There have been some 58,010 Qurban animals thanks to a significant increase in demand for goats and sheep in particular," she said here Sunday.
Speaking to journalists on the sidelines of the Idul Adha prayers, held at the Jakarta International Stadium, Eliawati said the supplied Qurban animals consist of 37,010 goats and sheep, and 21,000 cows.
Meanwhile, Governor Anies Baswedan said several regions outside Jakarta preferred buying the Qurban animals that had received disease surveillance and been verified by authorities in the city.
Some 40,000 of the 58,010 Qurban animals were distributed to the city's neighboring areas.
In addition to the implementation of good animal health surveillance, the livestock suppliers in Jakarta are also responsive to the handling of live cattle infected by the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), he said.
Therefore, many buyers from outside Jakarta preferred purchasing the animals from them, Anies Baswedan added.
"A surveillance system that has well been prepared from the beginning has strengthened public trust," he said, adding that other regions would hopefully follow Jakarta's way of handling the animal health surveillance.
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Regarding the FMD outbreak in Indonesia, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi )had issued his instructions for the handling of the FMD in livestock on June 24, 2022.
According to Head of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) Lieutenant General Suharyanto, one of the President's instructions was related to lockdown policy that would be implemented in red zone areas in provinces where more than 50 percent of sub-districts had reported FMD infections.
There should be no movement of animals from one point to another to prevent an increase in red zone areas, he said at a coordination meeting on the handling of the FMD outbreak in June.
In helping the FMD-infected cattle get recovered, the Indonesian authorities have been intensifying vaccination.
To this end, ANTARA reported earlier that on July 3, 2022, a total of 94 thousand doses of the FMD vaccine had arrived at the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport.
This FMD vaccine type Aftopor, under the third-phase delivery, was shipped from France. It would be distributed by the Agriculture Ministry to various regions in Indonesia in a bid to accelerate the handling of FMD.
On June 12, ten thousand doses had arrived in the first phase, while as many as three million doses on June 16 in the second phase.
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