Bogor, West Java. Plantation company Astra Agro Lestari claims it has developed its own technology to boost the productivity of its oil palm plantations and counter the short supply of modern plantation tools and machineries in Indonesia. The company, a subsidiary of Astra International, has devised at least three applications and tools to manage thousands of its…
JAKARTA, Feb 17 (Reuters) – Indonesia’s palm oil exports to China have declined due to a drop in demand for the vegetable oil as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, farming ministry officials said. Indonesia has so far exported 84,000 tonnes of palm oil this month, compared with 371,000 tonnes for the full month of…
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – President Joko Widodo, or Jokowi, officially reminded the state-owned energy firm Pertamina and the Oil Palm Plantation Fund Management Agency to avoid being too frugal in developing the country’s catalyst industry as he reminded the energy company only has three out of roughly 50 catalyst producers to accelerate production. “We have the…
BRUSSELS, Feb 13 (Reuters) – Malaysia no longer plans to file a WTO lawsuit against EU restrictions on palm oil-based biofuel and will instead seek to convince European to change its treatment of the crop in a review scheduled for 2021. The European Commission concluded last year that palm oil cultivation results in excessive deforestation…
Jakarta – Smallholding palm oil farmers are no strangers to being made a scapegoat for forest destruction across Indonesia. But deep in the heartland of North Sumatra, the farmers show that with the right skills and knowledge, they can also become frontline guardians of the forest. Among the 26 provinces in Indonesia that produce palm…
Indonesia and Malaysia, the world’s top palm oil producers, accused the European Union on Friday of unfairly targeting palm oil under a plan to impose new limits on levels of contaminants considered harmful to health in vegetable oils and fats. The EU intends to set new limits for food contaminants in refined oils and fats,…
Indonesia is likely to use up 8.3 million tonnes of palm oil to meet domestic demand for biodiesel this year, rising concerns there won’t be enough palm oil left to export, according to the Indonesian Palm Oil Association, or Gapki. Jakarta (VNA) – Indonesia is likely to use up 8.3 million tonnes of palm oil…
JAKARTA – The world’s top palm oil producer Indonesia exported a record 36.18 million tonnes of palm oil and its products, including biodiesel and oleochemical last year, data from the Indonesia Palm Oil Association (GAPKI) showed on Monday. Exports rose by 4.2% from 34.71 million tonnes in 2018, supported by rising demand from China, the…
JAKARTA, Jan 29 (Reuters) – Indonesia state energy company PT Pertamina has ended a partnership with Italian oil, gas and power firm Eni SpA to process palm oil into fuel, Pertamina’s chief executive told a parliamentary committee on Wednesday. Pertamina’s Nicke Widyawati said during the hearing that Eni required internationally recognised certification for palm oil,…
North Sumatra University (USU) in Medan plans to open a brand new palm oil program following the announcement of the Education and Culture Ministry’s Kampus Merdeka (Freedom Campus) policy, which gives universities across the country greater freedom to establish new programs. USU rector Runtung Sitepu said the program would be fitting, as North Sumatra was…
India is set to import less than 70,000 tonnes of palm oil from Malaysia in January, the lowest since April 2011 and significantly lower than the 253,889 tonnes it imported in January 2019, traders and refiners said. India’s monthly palm oil imports from Malaysia could fall to the lowest level in nearly nine years in…
KUALA LUMPUR, January 26 – The Managing Director of the Malaysia Palm Oil Association (MPOA), Datuk Nageeb Wahab, said the attempt was only to protect European oilseeds. Nageeb told Malay Mail in an interview that the hostile campaign and the alleged justification of the EU are not justified. “We are more concerned about the reason…
Jakarta – The European Union had provoked a “trade war” by issuing discriminative restrictions on Indonesian palm oil, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo tweeted on Saturday. “Indonesia has 13 million hectares of oil palm plantations that produce 46 million tons [of crude palm oil, or CPO] per year. The EU has been saying that Indonesian palm…
I wish to draw attention to the recent report in CNN referring to the world’s demand for palm oil igniti, g a climate bomb. The report published last month titled “Borneo is Burning: How the world’s demand for palm oil is driving deforestation in Indonesia”. This form of reporting is not constructive to addressing the…
Out of five renewable energy sources being developed in Indonesia, bioenergy saw the most progress this year as Indonesia escalated a policy mandating the use of biofuel-blended diesel. Otherwise, renewable energy development and investments are poised to fall behind annual targets. August marked Indonesia”s 11th month of mandating the use of 20 percent blended biodiesel…
Duty on CPO lowered to 37.5 percent from 40 percent Reuters/Mumbai, India India has cut import taxes on crude and refined palm oil from ASEAN countries after a request from suppliers, a government notification said on Tuesday. The reduction will lead to higher imports of palm oil by the world’s biggest edible oil buyer in…
JAKARTA – Indonesia’s Oil Palm Plantation Fund Management Agency, or BPDPKS, will resume collecting export levy of $50 per tn on crude palm oil and lower levy on downstream products as the country’s trade ministry today announced CPO reference price for January at $729.72 per tn, up from $650.18 per tn in December. “The CPO…
SIAK, Riau: Kimia Tirta Utama Junior High School is located amid 6,400ha of palm plantation owned by Indonesian palm oil producer PT Kimia Tirta Utama (KTU). With palm trees being a familiar plant in their surroundings, the 282 students are taught sustainable agriculture from an early age. They learn how to recycle waste and more…
Indonesia and India are working to find a new strategy to achieve a bilateral trade target of US$50 billion within the next five years, Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said as she sought to strengthen Indonesia’s palm oil exports to India. Together with her Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Retno cochaired the sixth Joint Commission Meeting in…
The world’s largest producer of palm oil, is focusing big on exports to countries like India and China to overcome the likely setback it may face from the European Union, which may cut down on imports of palm oil products. MEDAN (INDONESIA): Indonesia, the world’s largest producer of palm oil, is focusing big on exports…
