Australia's government led by Prime Minister Julia Gillard did not promise to give the local cattle industry any compensation for the recent implementation of a live export ban to Indonesia, which will last for six months.

The Prime Minister said today in a radio interview with Fran Kelly that the government has acknowledged along with cattle industry leaders that they would not want this for the long term.

"They do want to see this trade last in the long term and so do I. In order to do that, we have to get this right,'' she said in the interview.

Ms Gillard also rejected the claims of Indonesian authorities that Australia maybe breaching World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules.

"What we have done does not breach the Wold Trade Organisation rules, we can under those rules make appropriate arrangement s for animal welfare and we have done that," she said.

In a related news from AFP, the Indonesian government, on the other hand, has been defiant and insisted that it could buy more beef from New Zealand after Australia suspended live cattle exports due to concerns over animal cruelty.

Agriculture ministry livestock department chief Prabowo Respatiyo Caturroso said the Indonesian government was not yet satisfied that a video showing brutal abuse of Australian cattle in Indonesian slaughterhouses was authentic.

But he said the government was determined to improve butchering practices wherever cruelty was discovered. "We have to respect the Australian government's decision to stop its live cattle exports to Indonesia," Mr Caturroso told AFP.