Legal Protection for Cattle Breeders in Terms of Regulation of the Minister of Agriculture Number 17 of 2022 Concerning the Import of Boneless Meat in Certain Cases Originating from a Country or Zone within a Country of Origi

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the legal protection of cattle breeders in terms of Regulation of the Minister of Agriculture Number 17 of 2022 concerning Importation of Boneless Meat in Certain Cases Originating from a Country or Zone within a Country of Origin. Imports of beef and buffalo meat continue to increase every year, especially buffalo meat in 2016 it was only 39,524 tons, in 2021 it reached 73,780 tons and in 2022 it reached 225.6 thousand tons. The policy of opening imports of buffalo meat from countries that are not yet free of foot and mouth disease (FMD) and there is a prohibition on importing from countries that are not yet in the FMD free zone has resulted in cattle breeders experiencing a loss in their cattle output. In practice, the price of beef has increased so that the price of livestock products has a real influence on efforts to develop the scale of the livestock business. That is, the price is an incentive component for the development of smallholder plantation businesses in the country. The research method was carried out using the Normative Research method using a comparative legal approach with Primary Legal Materials, namely laws and regulations, secondary legal materials, namely data from law books, legal texts, legal articles, legal journals. Based on the research results, it is known that the legal protection for cattle breeders has not gone well where in order to protect domestic cattle breeders so that they can grow and develop in a conducive manner, affordable meat price guidelines can be used as a basis for consideration as long as the increase is in line with developments in inflation in the national economy