The reality is that Indonesia only accounts for a part of beef production. We ca still ship live cattle to many other parts of the world; we can consume the meat on the domestic market; or we can delay the sale of stock. None of these will account for all of the stock, but in combination they can do a lot.
I seldom eat meat, but I'll do my bit and put my hand up to buy a roast or two specially if farmers want to organise a one-off sale of some of the cattle they were going to export to be tortured to death. I reckon most Australians would do the same.
And the point is
it doesn't matter if the people who were making money out of selling cattle to be tortured to death lose some money or not. That practice is simply unacceptable under any circumstances. We can't help the 100,00 animals in Indonesia. Short of going to war, there is nothing we can do about them. But we
can make sure that the cruelty goes no further by stopping all exports of livestock until the Indonesians decide to join the human race and enforce basic civilised standards on their processing facilities. If they want to buy our meat - and they do, we know that - then they will do it.