InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA - Indonesian Palm Oil Association (IPOA) would run the 15th Indonesian Palm Oil Conference and 2020 Price Outlook.
What is interesting is that besides joining the conference, in the spare time, it is planned that there would be more events, such as, the signing of sustainable palm oil development cooperation between IPOA and Instiper Jogjakarta. The other event is the socialization of Rencana Aksi Nasional Kelapa Sawit Berkelanjutan (RAN-KSB) which is said that it is in the president’s desk to be inaugurated as the president’s instruction.
“This is about to socialize the policy in RAN-KSB for every member of IPOA about the implementation and the goal,” Executive Director of IPOA, Mukti Sardjono said.
It is planned to that the conference of the planters would be on 30 October - 1 November 2019 in Bali International Convention Centre, The Westin Resort, Nusa Dua, Bali, within the theme “Palm Oil Industry: Managing Market, Enhancing Competitiveness”.
Chairman of Committee of 15th Indonesian Palm Oil Conference and 2020 Price Outlook, Mona Surya said that though palm oil industries nationally face the challenges, the industries keep developing.
The other challenges are the trade barrier – regulation, and the cheap price which tends to decrease. The two are the big ones and very important for the planters to search for strategies to have competitiveness in the global markets.
“The theme is specifically taken to discuss the comprehensiveness of the issues and how the palm oil industries react to survive to be the competitive commodity in the global markets,” he said in the press conference, Thursday (17/10/2019) in Jakarta that InfoSAWIT attended.
The two day – conference would also discuss the trade war between China and the United States of America (USA), the regulation in the export countries, and economic-geopolitics that would influence the future of palm oil industries. Besides it is about to discuss the development in the downstream industries, supply and demand of the vegetable oil in the world, the trend of the global markets, and the price outlook in the next year.
Mona also mentioned that in this year, there would be more than 1500 participants from more than 25 countries in the world
The other agenda is that there would be exhibitions from 97 companies in many sectors. In every single year, the participants are in line to join it. By August 2019 the participants have fulfilled the quote. “Since August 2019 the participants were full booked,” Mona said. (T2)
