InfoSAWIT, BRUSSEL – European Union Deforestation – Free Regulation (EUDR) could potentially deliver losses for smallholders and make them difficult namely in implementing geolocation plot of palm oil plantations and country benchmarking system that would divide countries in three categories, they are, high risk, standard, and low risk. 

In benchmarking, Coordinator Minister in Economy Indonesia, Airlangga Hartarto said that as a country that obeys convention and regulations in international scale, EUDR could potentially block commodity market access that covers coffee, cocoa, wood, palm oil, and rubber.

“EUDR also delivers negative images to the countries that are categorized as high risk,” he said as in the official statement to InfoSAWIT, Wednesday (31/5/2023).

In question and answer session, it was revealed that civil society organizations (CSOs) and non-government organizations (NGOs) worried about the latest EUDR. They questioned and delivered inputs that it needs clear platform of consultation to support and arrange regulation implementation in EUDR to be more practical, less bureaucratic, and not delivering losses for smallholders.

Besides they are ready to support Indonesia to face every issue in EUDR and its delegated acts because palm oil as strategic commodity also delivers profits and advantages for smallholders. In fact, European cannot be separated from palm oil. (T2)