The Australian and Indonesian governments signed a bilateral protocol, opening market access for the export of Australian rendered products for animal feed to Indonesia. The new trade arrangement reinstates access lost in 2018 and was previously estimated by the industry at the time to be worth more than $100 million for Australian producers and exporters.

The deal will benefit the Australian rendering industry by opening access to a new market for their products, bolstering the industry’s economic resilience and enhancing sustainability by making use of all valuable animal materials. Indonesia’s poultry and aquaculture sectors will also benefit from access to safe, competitive and high-quality animal feed supply ingredients through the opening of trade.

To date, six Australian rendering establishments have been approved by the Indonesian Government for the export of rendered product. Indonesia is Australia’s 5th largest agricultural export market, with two-way trade valued at $5.5 billion in 2023-2024. The Indonesian market made up around 32% of Australia’s export trade in rendered products when it was last active in 2018.

“Our Government has been working hard to open this trade with Indonesia and this outcome will be fantastic for Australian exporters, granting them more export options, and for the Indonesian agriculture sector, which will now have access to our high-quality rendered products,” said Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Julie Collins MP. “This outcome will support Australia’s agricultural industry to grow toward a $100 billion sector by 2030.”