Editorial board (The Jakarta Post)
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Jakarta ● Mon, June 27 2022
The country's outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) has spread to 19 provinces so far, affecting some 232,000 farm animals, and has come at a particularly challenging time, just ahead of Idul Adha, the Muslim Day of Sacrifice.
Demand for livestock normally spikes in the country before the holiday, which falls this year on July 9, as Muslims buy cows, goats and sheep for sacrifice.
In response to the rapid spread of the disease over the past two months, the government has barred livestock from being moved between provinces, has been quarantining and vaccinating animals and has been culling sick ones. So far more than 2,200 animals have been culled.
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