12 YoungElaeis Ambassadors Were Selected: From Ghana, India. And Pakistan

Doc. of InfoSAWIT/General Secretary of CPOPC, Rizal Affandi Lukman (central) and the winners #YoungElaeis Ambassador, Thursday (23/11/2023) in Surabaya.

InfoSAWIT, SURABAYA – #YoungElaeis program was an event by Council of Palm Oil Producing Countries (CPOPC)to gather the youth representatives from many selected countries as the young ambassadors to promote sustainable palm oil values.

The program targeted the youth. It started from those who are still studying in high schools to senior in universities. The program was the series of the 8^th CPOPC anniversary on 21 November 2023.

General Secretary of CPOPC, Rizal Affandi Lukman said that the organization keeps informing about palm oil industries as the facts in every level. With the supports from the youth, it is hoped to reinforce the people’s understanding which misunderstood about palm oil industries.

“That is why we keep having the strong spirit and positive power which would be supported by the youth to promote palm oil in the globe,” he said in CPOPC 8^th Anniversary Dinner & #YoungEleis Ambassador Award that InfoSAWIT attended, Thursday (23/11/2023) in Surabaya.

He continued that #YoungElaeis Ambassadors award was the program that CPOPC initiated. It got 80 contestant from many countries, such as, Indonesia, Malaysia, Ghana, Honduras, and from consumer countries, such as, French, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Netherland.

28 finalists were selected. With the support from the secretariat, they would contribute to reinforce three award categories, such as, smallholders, circular economy, and the third was sustainability.

“We hope your contribution in developing palm oil ecosystem to show more their roles in positively delivering impacts from palm oil globally,” Rizal said.

Juliette Marie Martinez of Honduras said that for all these years, many countries cooperated better to confirm that palm oil could be exported in the globe and the world could enjoy palm oil market access, which was produced sustainably.

But it needs to solve the issues about the advantages from consumers and producer countries. It is time to navigate to develop self-defense from uncertain supply and price. “The support from the government is good to improve sustainable development,” she said.

George Tutu-Yeboah from Ghana said that everything could clearly see the information to what happened in Africa through digital platform. CPOPC has re-created sustainable palm oil practice initiative and important projects to develop the same action.

One can be done, George Tutu-Yeboah continued was that he himself tried to deliver the goodness of palm oil for the closest environments, such as, family and friends. “I told about palm oil industries to my families and friends,” he said.

He continued this should be the solution to encourage the same action with the finalists to inform what actually palm oil industries have done. “Inform who we are (palm oil industries) actually,” he said.

What InfoSAWIT got, here are the winners of #YoungElaeis Ambassadors:

Smallholders category: