LAMPUNG BANDAR - Lampung Agricultural Quarantine Center secured 4.7 tons of buffalo meat without a letter or health certification from Java while at Bakauheni Port, South Lampung.
"This action is a form of our vigilance in anticipating the income and circulation of meat that is not guaranteed quality and health," said the Animal Quarantine Sub-Coordinator of the Lampung Agricultural Quarantine Center, End of Santoso, as reported by ANTARA, Wednesday, July 12.
The Lampung Agricultural Quarantine Team took firm action against the cold diesel referer car containing the buffalo meat.
Because they cannot show the health documents issued by official institutions in the area of origin before crossing to the island of Sumatra.
"The car contains buffalo meat and jeroan weighing as much as 4,705.82 kg or 4.7 tons, and we have detained it at Bakauheni Port," he said.
The Sub-Coordinator of Supervision and Enforcement, Lampung Agricultural Quarantine Karman said that the commodity income had violated Article 88 junto Article 35 of Law Number 21 of 2019 concerning Animal, Fish and Plant Quarantine.
It is stated that every income or expenditure of carrier media, in this case agricultural products, must be equipped with an animal health certificate from their place of origin and reported by quarantine officers at the income point.
"Furthermore, the detention of commodities against several people has been used as witnesses by the Agricultural Quarantine Civil Servant Investigator (PPNS). The perpetrator's actions have the potential to receive a maximum imprisonment of two years and a maximum fine of two billion rupiahs, according to Law 21 of 2019," he said.
VOIR éGALEMENT:
In addition to successfully preventing 4.7 tons of buffalo to enter Sumatra Island, on Saturday (1/7), the Lampung Agricultural Quarantine also detained 30 cows from South Jakarta loaded in 3 three trucks, which are planned to go to East Lampung.
The detention of these 30 cows also has the same problem, namely they do not complete a health certificate from their area of origin, so that the commodity has been rejected.
"It is very unfortunate, in the government's efforts to deal with the outbreak of livestock disease through tightening animal traffic and its derivative products, there are still people who are trying to smuggle," he said.
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