Eat-chicken campaign continues

Eat-chicken campaign continues

JAKARTA: Hundreds of students, officials and poultry breeders
gathered at the office of the East Jakarta municipal
administration on Friday morning to partake in various chicken
dishes, an event held as part of the campaign to promote chicken
after the recent bird-flu scare.

A similar event was hosted by the Bogor Agriculture Institute,
with students and residents invited to dine on chicken in the
campus' Grawida hall in Bogor.

The two organizers claimed the events would help revive the
poultry industry.

In Jakarta alone, the demand for chicken meat has dropped by
up to 40 percent.

Pardamean Lubis, who owns small poultry farm in East Jakarta,
said that his business had been badly hit.

"This campaign is effective to restore the public's confidence
in eating chicken meat," he said. -- JP