InfoSAWIT, TANGERANG – When facing palm oil export challenges namely about European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), Ministry of Trade took every planter to remain optimist and should get every chance from the increasing derivative product demands, such as, cosmetic, oleochemical, and biodiesel in palm oil base to the countries.
“The planters should get the chance when facing the challenges. It sometimes happened that the chance would increase palm oil product competition from Indonesia to many countries in the world,” Expert Staff in International Relationship Ministry of Trade, Dandy Satria Iswara said in the official statement, as InfoSAWIT quoted, Monday (14/10/2024).
He said that in an event that Ministry of Trade and Palm Oil Plantation Fund Management Agency (PFMA) conducted and attended by many trade representatives from many countries. The event was in the same time with the 39th Trade Expo Indonesia (TEI) that lasted on 9 to 12 October 2024.
He explained that EUDR would be about to minimize global scale – deforestation by regulating every commodity import that might contribute to deforestation, including palm oil. Every exporter should confirm their product traceability to remain compete in the continent.
Dandy also mentioned that the export chance would remain still to other countries. “In 2022 our palm oil derivative exports significantly got escalated in some countries, such as, Philippine, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey,” he said.
To maintain the market competition in the world, the government adopted the new sustainability standards through Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) to confirm that palm oil products from Indonesia would qualify international scale sustainability standards and would always compete to many countries where they concerned about sustainability.
“This should solve the challenges, increase the market access, and get the new countries to sell palm oil and its derivative products,” he said.
Ministry of Trade would always be committed to support national scale palm oil exports by publishing many regulations, such as, the Regulation of Minister of Trade (RMT) Number 23 / 2023 and Number 50 / 2022. Besides, the government would always promote palm oil products to many new countries, expand international scale cooperation, confirm that palm oil products from Indonesia qualified sustainability standards in global scale.
One significant strategic in the promotion would be about palm oil branding from Indonesia through digital platforms, international scale promotion, and the support from trade representative in many countries. Dandy emphasized that the synergy among the government, the industries, academy and others would be very significant to face every challenge in the globe.
“We are optimist with your supports, Indonesia would maintain its position as the biggest palm oil exporter and keep increasing its competition in the world,” he said.
Head of Civil Society Division PO PFMA, Aida Fitria said that the agency would keep encouraging the research and innovation to make palm oil industries go forward. It would also reinforce the synergy between the downstream and upstream sectors and would escalate the people’s economy.
“The will to conduct palm oil research should be from the early age namely in the student levels to realize palm oil industries tough and sustainable nationally,” Aida said. (T2)
