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Improving veterinary service delivery in a decentralised Indonesia

Project ID:
AH/2006/166: Improving veterinary service delivery in a decentralised Indonesia
Collaborating Countries:
Indonesia
Commissioned Organisation:
NSW Department of Primary Industries, Australia
Project Leader
Dr Helen Scott-Orr
Phone: 02 6391 3320
Fax: 02 6391 3740
Email: helen.scott-orr@dpi.nsw.gov.au
Collaborating Institutions:
  • Directorate General of Livestock Services, Indonesia
Project Budget:
$1,197,150
Project Duration:
01/02/2008 - 31/01/2012
ACIAR Research Program Manager
Dr Doug Gray
Project Overview

Infectious animal diseases, especially those affecting people (zoonoses), have always been difficult to control in Indonesia and continue to cause major economic losses and human morbidity and mortality. Since Indonesia was decentralised, it has become a huge challenge to educate locally elected district and provincial leaders and their people of the importance of animal disease prevention and control, and to introduce animal health systems, policies and operating procedures.

For example, highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) entered Indonesia in 2003, and since then there has been huge international pressure and considerable commitment of money and resources to contain and eradicate it, but success has been limited. Efforts to control HPAI have also diverted scarce resources away from programs to control other serious endemic animal diseases and from preparedness for exotic diseases such as foot-and-mouth disease.

This project aims to assist the Indonesian government to reduce the impacts of serious zoonotic and trans-boundary animal diseases by introducing and eventually institutionalising improved frameworks and strategies for veterinary service delivery in the new decentralised Indonesia.