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Indonesian eat rice not wheat

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In Reply to: Indonesia wants to stop Australian Wheat sales to Indonesia... Happy fasting! posted by Justice Seeker on September 27, 1999 at 01:17:03:

First I want you to know that indonesian doesn't eat wheat. In indonesia wheat mostly imported by PT Bogasari and Indofood an instant noodle producer. For the past 12 month indonesia only imported 50% of its wheat fro australia. The rest were imported from US and Canada (mostly) and both US and Canada plus some other countries incl. India and Argentina are now ready to increase their export and replace australia as the bigest wheat exporter to indonesia. On australian side, indonesia is the largest wheat importer (value about A$ 1.7 bn/year), so if indonesia stop purchasing wheat from australia it seem that they are the first to cry. Happy fasting aussie wheat farmer....

BTW: The news said that indonesia will also stop importing cotton and dairy product form aussie (value about A$1 bn/year).

I am not anti-australia I just want to show you the fact that people from both countries will suffer more than those politician (leader) who make this happen.

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• who care's...we have to subsidise goods there anyway...they can't afford the food at our prices..they have to work 1 week for a hamburger... vigilanty 19:29:53 9/29/99 (0)

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