JAKARTA (business-jabar.com): Indonesia-Dutch Partnership on Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI-IDP), cooperation institutions controlling bird flu Indonesia and the Netherlands that has lasted for six years officially ended in November 2011.
Bilateral control of avian influenza has been going on since 2005 made between the Ministry of Agriculture Indonesia and the Netherlands Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Public Health.
Through the IDP-HPAI, Indonesia and the Netherlands have worked together to prevent further spread of avian influenza in Indonesia and to control the transmission of this fatal disease by conducting capacity building, scientific research and field tests.
The focus point of heavy IDP co-HPAI is more in terms of animal health by providing research-based Indonesia in order to gain important guidance to assist the Government of Indonesia to support capacity building in animal health officials.
According to Ivo Claassen, Head of Operational Office, from the beginning the main focus of activity of such cooperation is to develop a strategy to control HPAI outbreaks in poultry.
"Development of a control program is supported by various field and laboratory studies that gave birth to a view of effective vaccines that are produced locally, but also the structure of the market chain and the things about the virus that causes Avian Influenza," he said, last weekend.
This view, he added, has been very helpful in the development of wisdom that can help control program. For example, we carry out surveillance in some poultry shelter facility in Jakarta.
"Our research results indicating that 80% of homes are shelter infected poultry of avian influenza virus," said Ivo. (FSI)
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