INFO SAWIT, BERLIN –Secretary of Development Aid, German, Gerd Müller forbids to import palm oil having negative issues. Müller said that heading to the European Union free trade with with Indonesia and Malaysia, as qouted from Deutche Welle. “Palm oil cultivation is the main reason of the progressive damage of the tropical forests,” Müller said, Wednesday (23/11/2016) in Berlin.

So the free trade agreement should give strong signal. One chance to do it is by making the Agreement Regulation of the Free Trade that palm oil should be produced sustainably, environmentally and has import license from European Union, he said.

Based on the report, released by Amnesty Internasional, 9 multinational companies also supply palm oil stock from Indonesia where the exploitation of young aged workers, and other violance. Amensty also claime, the companies are Unilever, Nestlé, Kellogg, Procter & Gamble, AFAMSA, ADM , Colgate-Palmolive, Elevance, and Reckitt Benckiser contributing to the child labours.

Researcher of Amnesty in Berlin, Verena Haan, said, the multinational companies “are far from doing responsibility of the human rights in their chain of stock”. Certification system, made in 2004, by "Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil" (RSPO)” is not enough to make sure that the human rights is respected,” Verena Haan said, as quoted fromtribunnews.com.

Amnesty also released a report, "The Great Palm Oil Scandal: Labour Abuses Behind Big Brand Names", on Wednesday (30/11/2016) in the internal site, www.amnesty.org. The report mentioned the result of the research about the work condition in palm oil areas in Indonesia, managed by Singaporean company, Wilbur internasional Inc. "None of the company could explain, why the human rights violance is not detected and prevented in their areas,” the report explained. (T2)