Mentan akan Berantas Praktik Ilegal Impor Sapi di Kementan

Minister of Agriculture will Eradicate Illegal Practice Beef Imports in the Ministry of Agriculture

Reporter : Gusmiati Waris
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Novita Cahyadi


Mentan akan Berantas Praktik Ilegal Impor Sapi di Kementan
Menteri Pertanian Suswono meninjau peternakan sapi di Jawa Timur (Foto: analisadaily.com)

Jakarta (B2B) - Menteri Pertanian Suswono menyatakan komitmennya untuk menindak tegas pejabat dan pegawai di Kementerian Pertanian apabila ditemukan bukti terlibat dalam tindak penyimpangan impor daging sapi.

Suswono menegaskan akan bertindak tegas kepada siapa saja yang melakukan penyimpangan dari ketentuan pemerintah, sehingga kasus hukum impor daging sapi dapat segera terungkap.

"Asal ada tindakan pelanggaran, pasti ada tindakan hukum secara otomatis," kata Suswono saat ditemui di kantor Kementerian Pertanian Jakarta, Jumat (15/2/2013).

Suswono menambahkan, meski diduga ada penyimpangan dalam pengaturan kuota impor daging sapi, dirinya menyatakan proses importasi sudah dilakukan secara terbuka.

Jakarta (B2B) - Minister of Agriculture Suswono declared its commitment to take firm action against officials and employees in the Ministry of Agriculture, if evidence is found involved in acts of deviance beef imports.

Suswono confirmed, will act decisively to anyone deviating from the provisions of the government, so the case of beef import laws can be revealed.

"As long as there are violations, there must be a legal action automatically," Suswono said when met at the office of the Ministry of Agriculture in Jakarta, Friday (02/15/2013).

Suswono added, although suspected irregularities in the beef import quota setting, he declared the importation process is conducted openly.