I totally agree with your first paragraph. I am sorry to derail this thread. But yes in Indonesia there is still a big problem with monopolies, cartels, price fixing ect.
The second paragraph:
This one maybe?
http://www.agriculture.com/content/...ilty-of-cartel-practices-anti-monopoly-agency
I didn't want to spent to much time digging on the internet so I found this (it is not F&B business):
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/...gistics-transportation-sector-monopolies.html
You realize that the first link is not about monopoly per se which is the "exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service". In other words a monopoly is a situation where a
sole company controls almost all or in totality a sector or a product. The case here is about cartel practices among 32 cattle companies which as a whole do not control the sector, far from it. Furthermore you certainly have noticed that it gives little details about what they have been doing exactly.
I am curious to here how, as a consumer, the cartel practices among these 32 importers of beef cattle has impacted you negatively? This is a serious question. Have you been, as a consumer, a victim of this particular case while shopping for a living beef for breeding (indukan) or fattening? Or victim of any other known case of alleged price fixing or is this just an assumption on general practices? Not that I try to minor the nastiness of cartel practices but I am a bit surprise by your links. I thought you would come up with live examples on you having been a victim of cartel practices since you stated that it is a big problem in Indonesia.
Googleing links is easy but you should make sure that they are about a binding decision.
For the record, many of the companies fined by KPPU in your link, including PT Elders Indonesia have appealed the decision.
You are also not naive and you can't ignore the fact that cartel practices exists EVERYWHERE in the world and is not a rare occurrence, including in your and my native country. Nothing specific to
Indonesia here or specific to the F&B industry in Indonesia. It is very hard to fight against and to prove but believing that a country is exempt of these practices would be totally naive. I would even say that the more developed the market is, the more the actors are prone to resort to cartel practices.
A link above cartel practices in Europe and the USA:
http://globalinvestigationsreview.com/insight/the-investigations-review-of-the-americas-2016/1024336/cross-border-overview-international-cartel-investigations-united
http://ec.europa.eu/competition/speeches/text/sp2013_09_en.pdf
For the record, Indonesia has been one of the first nation in ASEAN to pass (in 1999) a Law on Competition and against monopolies and cartel practices. Indonesia is certainly not rid of problems of commercial malpractices but depicting it as black goat would be unfair.
In fact a recent report from UNCTAD (United Nations Committee on Trade and Development) was mentioning that most competition problems in Indonesia stem from Government actions rather than private/companies actions.
Second link in your post has definitively nothing to do with the F&B industry but illustrate perfectly my above paragraph.