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InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – PT. Pertamina and ENI, the Italian non-oil and gas company cooperated to sign three agreements last week in Rome, Italy.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – The palm oil taskforce of International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has completed the objective analysis about the impact of palm oil to natural conservation globally and offered the solutions to conserve the environment. The result of the study concluded that the other kinds of vegetable oil need nine times areas larger than palm oil.

InfoSAWIT, KOTAWARINGIN TIMUR – Four lecturers from Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), such as, Prof. DR. Ir. Mochamad Sambas Sabarnurdin M.Sc., DR. Sigit Sunarta, S.Hut., M.P., Ir. Kasmudjo, M.S., and Ir. Sri Astuti Soedjoko, had a chance to see in person the palm oil plantation cultivated by PT. Nusantara Sawit Persada (NSP), in District of Kotawaringin Timur, Central Kalimantan Province.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA - If we agree with the sustainable development goals (SDGs), of course, we could start to cultivate the wide land in Indonesia to be palm oil plantation. Though it is not palm oil only, but InfoSAWIT would help to purse to one biggest commodity that the world needs of.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA - The gap of consumption and production of vegetable oil in the world becomes the classical issue. This happens because the consumption level is always more than 10% in every single year while the production level could be about 6% in every year. The gap level of the two is the reason to make vegetable oil get more expensive.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – The cheaper crude palm oil in the world since the early of 2014 influenced the fresh fruit bunch produced by the smallholders, namely the independent ones. The peak was happening in the midst of 2015 reaching US$ 530/ton.

InfoSAWIT, HONG KONG – In the early of February 2019, palm oil plantation company, Asian Agri got Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) Best First Time Performance Award 2018. Asian Agri got it as the best company whole over Hong Kong and Southeast Asia of the 173 companies in total which accomplished the question lists from CDP for the first time.

InfoSAWIT, SAMARINDA – According to Fresh Fruit Bunch (FFB) Team in East Kalimantan Province, the more than 10 year old fruit is getting better Rp Rp 90,58/kg to be Rp 1.171,63/Kg.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – If in 2018 palm oil industries faced many issues, starting from the cheaper crude palm oil (CPO) up to the palm oil ban for biodiesel in European Union, in 2019 the industries could be better.

InfoSAWIT, SAMARINDA – Chairman of Indonesian Palm Oil Association (IPOA), Joko Supriyono said that it is important for East Kalimantan to be the palm oil biodiesel producer.

InfoSAWIT, SAMARINDA – Governor of East Kalimantan, H. Isran Noor said that the management of natural resources, such as, the oil and gas, and coal should be done better for they are potential to come to an end. That is why, it needs other alternatives, such as, plantation and palm oil industries.

InfoSAWIT, JAMBI – According to Fresh Fruit Bunch (FFB) Team in Jambi province on 01 to 7 February 2019, the 10-20 year old fruit is getting better, Rp 14,55/Kg to be Rp 1.471,35/Kg

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – The policy of Asian Agri not to multiply palm oil plantations was reflected by its effort to equate the plasma and partnership’s areas and the main ones.

InfoSAWIT, KUMAI HILIR – The subsidiary of Bumitama Gunajaya Agro (BGA) Group, PT Andalan Sukses Makmur (ASMR), which is the palm oil plantation company was trusted by the regional government of West Kotawaringin to construct the way about 9,2 Km in Kelurahan Kumai Hilir (seberang) to Village of Sungai Bedaun.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – The attempt to discriminate palm oil product from Indonesia done by European Union through Renewable Energy Derective (RED) II, and carbon track in palm oil development from the conversion or Indirect Land Use Change (ILUC), is directly responded by the government of Indonesia. The two policies could be the efforts from European Union countries to block palm oil usage as the biofuel material.

InfoSAWIT, PEKANBARU – According to the Fresh Fruit Bunch Team based on the FFB Documents of Riau Province No.)4 on 30 January to 5 February 2019, the 10 - 20 year old fruit is getting better Rp 27,72/Kg to be Rp 1.580,69/Kg

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – The government predicted that  trade balance would be deficit would in 2019. So the Coordinator Minister in Economy suggested to increase the exports by publishing the policy, they are, symplification procedure, and logistic efficiency. The two would immediately influence the trade work and export competitiveness.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA  – Indonesia and Turkey met again in the third round of Indonesia-Turkey Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (IT CEPA) in Jakarta. The two day – meeting - on 24—25 January 2019 was one thing to accelerate the trade negotiation between the two countries.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – According to Ministry of Trade, the crude palm oil (CPO) referential price to decide Out Fee (OF) in February 2019 is US$ 565,40/ton. It gets better US$ 62,10 or 12,34% from January 2019 which was US$ 503,30/ton.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – In the official bulletin which World Health Organization (WHO) released on 8 Januariy 2019, there was a paper written by Kaanddale, S., Marten, R., and Smith, R, that is “The Palm Oil Industry and Noncommunicable Disesae”. It corners palm oil by saying, palm oil industries are the same with tobacco and alcohol industries for making the negative to the mankind and the health issue in this world.