JAKARTA - INDONESIA has lifted a temporary ban on imports of pork and its by-products after they were ruled out being the source of human swine flu.

The Trade Ministry said on its website on Saturday that they decided to lift the ten-month ban because they considered that 'the disease cannot be transmitted from animals to human'.

UN Food and Agriculture Organisation experts say there is no risk of getting swine flu from eating pork.

Indonesia has recorded more than 1,000 confirmed cases of the A(H1N1) virus since it appeared in the country in June last year. Ten people in the country have died from the disease.