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In the rugged highlands outside a very small village in Indonesia’s province of West Timor, a small-holder farmer and his family grow mixed crops, mainly citrus, to bring in their subsistence livelihood. The farmer is talking with us about a disease affecting his family’s citrus trees. The family farm is located only two hundred kilometres from Australia’s border, and a little over one hour’s flight to Darwin, the nearest Australian city, which is a mere 820 km away. Putting that into other contexts, the farm is much closer to Australia than Indonesia’s capital city, Jakarta, and the same distance as London is to Italy or Sydney is to Melbourne. The farmer is concerned about his failing citrus production. Each year, he explains, a particular disease takes its toll on the productivity of the crop, and each year his income falls as a result. The disease has a treatment supported by the authorities. Every year, the farmer treats his trees according to the authorized recommendations.
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Refer to Chap. 4 for the background and full description of this situation.
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Refer also to ‘Biosecurity: What is it?’ (later section of this chapter), as well as Chap. 7 for the glossary development.
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The area of Indonesia from Bali eastwards up to the border between Papua New Guinea. Eastern Indonesia includes major islands of Lombok, Sumbawa, Sulawesi, Maluku, Flores, Sumba, the Greater Papua, West Timor and a range of equally important but smaller islands. See frontispiece map and information page preceding Chap. 1.
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See Upgrading Belize’s legal framework for biosecurity. Retrieved 6 August 2009 from http://www.fao.org/capacitybuilding/good_practices.jsp.
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A Google search in 2007 revealed that the Indonesian term “ketahanan hayati” (introduced during the CRC NPBS Summit on 24–26 May 2007) did not return any relevant results, whereas “biosekuriti” was only referred to in combination with Avian influenza.
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The authors wish to acknowledge the full author team for their editorial input into this chapter. Valuable advice and feedback was also received on this chapter from Dr. David Eagling, Research Leader of the CRC National Plant Biosecurity, and Mr Petra Karetji SPd, Member of Board of Trustees, BaKTI Foundation, Makassar.
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Falk, I., Wallace, R. (2011). Managing Plant Biosecurity Across Borders. In: Falk, I., Wallace, R., Ndoen, M. (eds) Managing Biosecurity Across Borders. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1412-0_1
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