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InfoSAWIT, KOTAKINABALU - Director of Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) Indonesia, Tiur Rumondang said that the principles and criteria (P&C) RSPO 2018 should fulfill the main goals of sustainable palm oil practice, they are, people, prosperity, and planet.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA - As it is known, Indonesia is as the biggest palm oil producer in the world together with Malaysia which master the palm oil trade up to 85%.

InfoSAWIT, PONTIANAK – According to Fresh Fruit Bunch (FFB) Team in West Kalimantan for the first period in February 2019, the 10 - 20 year old fruit is Rp 1.395,19/Kg.

InfoSAWIT, JAMBI – According to Fresh Fruit Bunch (FFB) Team in Jambi on 29 March - 4 April 2019, it is decided that the  10 - 20 year old fruit is cheaper Rp 12,52/Kg to be Rp 1.426.78/Kg.

InfoSAWIT, SINTANG –Serikat Petani Kelapa Sawit (SPKS) recently handed over the Draft of Academic Documents to publish the Regulation of Regent of Sintang about the Plantation Partnership and the Facility to Develop the Smallholders’ Plantation to the Regent of Sintang, DR. H. Jarot Winarno, M.Med.Ph., Thursday (27/3/2019) in the office of Agriculture and Plantation Agency, District of Sintang.

InfoSAWIT, MEDAN – In the series of 'Road to May Day 2019', Indonesian Palm Oil Association (IPOA) runs many initiatives, workshop, campaign, and promotion to implement the good work and children hospitality, both in the companies and the smallholders.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – 3.019 plasma smallholders from 8 (eight) unions joining palm oil plantations of PT Poliplant Sejahtera (PSA) in West Kalimantan, the subsidiary of Cargill got Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) certificate recently.

InfoSAWIT, BOGOR ­- PT SPMN is the palm oil plantation company which has about 7.714 hectares of plantation. They are in Village of Karang Sari, Sub district of Paranggean, District of Kotawaringin Timur (Kotim), Central Kalimantan. PT SPMN is the subsidiary of TSH Group Malaysia and as the member of Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO).

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA –Chief Executive of the 3^rd International Conference and Expo on Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ICE-ISPO), who is also as the Chairman of Supervision of Pengawas Gabungan Asosiasi Petani Perkebunan Indonesia (GAPERINDO), Gamal Nasir hoped that every instance or the 

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – It is eight years that Commission of Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) exists. It is not easy thing to run the policy because there are lots of challenges to face.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – In the previous nes, the non-profit organization, Transformasi untuk Keadilan (TuK) protested Malaysian palm oil plantation company, Sime Darby for selling one of its subsidiary which is still in conflict with the people around.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – The government of Indonesia has seriously noticed palm oil plantation development. It is proven by the publication of Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) in 2011.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – By the end of 2018 there was controvercy about the latest film produced by Greenpeace for it focused to the continous mysery of orangutan in Indonesia dan Malaysia if palm oil development continues.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – The indigenous people of Dayak Hibun from Dusun Kerunang and Dusun Entapang, Sub district of Bonti, District of  Sanggau, West Kalimantan told their objection by the selling of PT. Mitra Austral Sejahtera (PT. MAS), the subsidiary of palm oil plantation belonging to Sime Darby Plantation of Malaysia. 

InfoSAWIT, PASER – The publication of regional regulation of District of Paser No. 9 / 2018 about the Governance and Limits of Fresh Fruit Bunch (FFB) Transportation is respected by every smallholder in the district.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Until now the smallholders’ plantations are massive and the issues are too. Based on that the elected Chairman in the 4th National Meeting of Asosiasi Petani Kelapa Sawit Indonesia (Apkasindo) is ready to return the association which helps the smallholders in Indonesia to its real function.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – In the recent days, the multi stakeholder organization, Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil  (RSPO), International Labor Organization (ILO), and Christelijk Nationaal Vakverbond (CNV) International joined the workshop with Jaringan Serikat Pekerja dan Serikat Buruh Sawit Indonesia (JAPBUSI ); Jaringan Tenaga Kerja Kelapa Sawit Indonesia to get more education, strengthen, and intervene everything which relates to the human rights and labor in palm oil sector.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Palm oil has become the’primadona’ commodity in Indonesia for it has many advantages, both in the food and renewable energy. For the reasons, the golden commodity is always pressed by many sides about the deforestation issue, forest damages, the peatland, wetland, green – house gas emission, health, and others.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – In the same time with the commemoration of the World Day in this year within the theme, Leaving no one behind, Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), and sponsored by Cargill, the new report was published which focused to the water and how the agricultural industries correlate to the water in the future in Asia. The report also revealed that the water scarcity could infulence the economic progress in Asia. 90 percent of the respondents from food and agricultural industries in Asia agreed with this.

InfoSAWIT, PEKANBARU – Based on the Fresh Fruit Bunch (FFB) Team in Riau Province and based on the FFB Decision in Riau Province No. 11 on 20 to 26 March 2019, it is decided that the 10 - 20 year old fruit is cheaper Rp 8,44/Kg to be Rp 1.514,69/Kg .