James Nason

Beef and offal Coto Makassar, a traditional Indonesian soup. Source: MLA Indonesia market snapshot 2026. BRAZIL has become Indonesia’s second-largest source of beef offal less than a year after gaining expanded market access, with exports in the first five months of 2026 almost matching Australia’s volumes into one of its most important secondary beef markets.

A newly published scientific paper is challenging the way livestock are treated in the global net-zero debate, arguing that applying rigid emissions frameworks to biological systems like cattle production oversimplifies the highly variable nature of ecosystem carbon cycling. Published in the latest edition of Animal Frontiers, the paper argues climate policy should focus less on static annual emissions framing and more on long-term carbon budgets, emissions intensity and whole-of-system outcomes.

Prices for northern live export feeder steers into Indonesia have remained resilient with rates of $4/kg liveweight ex Darwin and higher for premium lines continuing to hold despite the seasonal lift in supply. Ordinarily, prices tend to soften as northern stations move into their dry season mustering programs and larger numbers of cattle hit the market.