Monday, 24 June 2019 | The Jakarta Post The European parliamentary elections last month resulted in a significant and challenging outcome, especially for the palm oil industry. Both the Greens (Greens European Free Alliance) and the far-right nationalists gained additional seats, while the center-right and centerleft lost their majority. The main agenda item for the…
Monday, 3 June 2019 | The Jakarta Post Indonesia and the European Union need to further promote cooperation over sustainable palm oil to help ease the tension between Jakarta and Brussels over the latter”s move to phase out the use of crude palm oil in biofuel by 2030, an EU representative has said. “Indonesia wants…
Wednesday, 29 May 2019 | www.thesundaily.my Poland is against the European Union’s (EU) proposed plan to ban the use of palm oil as a component of biofuels, and stressed that the republic does not intend to reduce the demand for Malaysian palm oil. Polish Ambassador to Malaysia Professor Krzysztof Debnicki said that Poland – one…
Monday, 27 May 2019 | The Jakarta Post Coordinating Economic Minister Darmin Nasution has welcomed the adoption of Japanese technology that can convert liquid palm oil waste, known as palm oil mill effluent (POME), into valuable products such docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), an omega–3 fatty acid, and animal feed. The Novel Algae–DHA Technology was developed by…
Thursday, 9 May 2019 | en.netralnews.com The development of 100% (B100) Biodiesel from Crude Palm Oil (CPO) is a strategic step for the Government to reduce dependence on the use of fossil fuels by encouraging the use of biofuels, which in turn can reduce dependence on imports of fuel oil (BBM). Public doubts about the…
Monday, 6 May 2019 | eco-business.com Stating that the EU labelling biofuel from palm oil as unsustainable is ‘unfair and discriminative’, a Malaysian minister has called Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) members to defend the region’s palm oil industry. The Malaysian government has called on its neighbours to help defend the palm oil industry…
Monday, 6 May 2019 | The Jakarta Post THE JAKARTA POST/JAKARTA Stakeholders comprising private and state institutions will kick off a maiden road test for vehicles using diesel fuel containing 30 percent palm oil-based biofuel, known as B30 biofuel, at the end of this month. The road test, which will involve carmakers such as Nissan,…
Monday, 6 May 2019 | bloomberg.com Franky Widjaja, head of one of the world’s biggest palm plantation companies, warned that the European Union’s plans to restrict use of the tropical oil in biofuel will misfire as the move will hurt growers and jeopardize future supplies of the vegetable oil. The world needs palm oil as…
Tuesday, 23 April 2019 | www.en.netralnews.com The European Union policy to ban ban the use of palm oil as a raw material for biofuels is considered potentially threatening the survival of 16 million workers in the oil palm sector in Indonesia. The Executive Secretary of the Indonesian Palm Oil Workers Union (JAPBUSI) Network Nursanna Marpaung…
Monday, 18 March 2019 | thestar.com.my DEFORESTATION, loss of bio-diversity, emission of greenhouse gases and global climate change have become the buzz words used by NGOs and other influential parties with self-interest to convince consumers to abandon the use of palm oil and turn instead to alternative vegetable oils such as sunflower, soybean and rapeseed, and…
