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InfoSAWIT, KUALA LUMPUR – In the early of 2019  palm oil industries would face the better markets. In the recent report of Bloomberg, palm oil market in China is widely open. The country bought much from the official report of the government.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA - In the end of 2018 palm oil industries were negatively accused by international non-government organizations to one palm oil producer company in Asia.

InfoSAWIT, SHAH ALAM – Palm oil has different meanings for everyone. For 650 thousand smallholders in Malaysia, it is the vital source of living. For the lecturers, students, and officials in KDU University College, they think that it is good vegetable oil to be used to cook.

InfoSAWIT, LONDON – In the research done in England, it was revealed that the companies selling products containing of palm oil should know where it derived from to let the consumers freely choose the sustainability.

InfoSAWIT, SINTANG – For the road in District of Sintang gets worse, Governor of West Kalimantan, Sutarmidji plans to call and meet some palm oil plantation companies.

InfoSAWIT, KUALA LUMPUR – In the official statement, the government of Malaysia would consider the laws that limits imported products from Franch if the country would not revoke its plan to palm oil limits in their biofuel.

InfoSAWIT, LONDON – United Kingdom Giant Supermarket, Iceland keeps selling its own products containing of palm oil though it promised to stop using palm oil in the end of 2018.

InfoSAWIT, BRUSSELS - Indonesia keeps struggling for palm oil issues and rejects discriminative policies to palm oil in Europe. This was the main discussion of Indonesia in Ministers of External Affairs Conference of ASEAN and European Union the 22^nd in Brussels, Belgium (21/1/2019).

InfoSAWIT, PEKANBARU – According to the Fresh Fruit Bunch (FFB) Team of Riau based on the Documents of FFB in Riau No. 03 on 23 to 29 January 2019, the 10 - 20 year old fruit is getting better Rp 31,06/Kg to be Rp 1.552,97/Kg

InfoSAWIT,  NEW YORK – Ministry of Trade, through General Directorate of National Export Development kept making chance and facilitation for the stakeholders to increase the trade agreement with others, and it was done in United States of America (USA).

InfoSAWIT, WASHINGTON DC – Minister of Trade, Enggartiasto Lukita emphasized that the principles of trade in Indonesia are done by collaborating and making partnership. These are important to increase the trade and investment sustainably. He told that when opening the  ‘Indonesia Palm Oil Forum’ in the Embassy of Indonesia in Washington DC, United States of America (USA), Wednesday (16/1/2019).

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – In the first act of Pakistan Edible Oil Conference (PEOC) in Karachi (19/1/2019), the ambassador of Indonesia to Islamabad, Iwan Suyudhie Amri, and General Consulate of Indonesia to Karachi, Totok Prianamto, and Chairman of Indonesian Palm Oil Associtation (IPOA), Joko Supriyono did working lunch with the coordinators of Pakistan Vanaspati Manufacture Association (PVMA) and Pakistan Edible Oil Refiners Association (PEORA).

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – One improvement in Principles and Criteria (P&C) of Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) 2018 is about the children – one susceptible group in the industry. In specific, the new P&C obliges the members of RSPO to have formal policy about the children protection, and documented process and conditions to screening evidence and training to the staffs of the companies about the children protection and the smallholders’ plot.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA -  Though the CPO got cheaper up to US$ 485/ton in the end of October 2018, the government of Indonesia anticipated the bad news through some programs, such as, publishing two way – policy in palm oil sector within the goal, to maintain the competitiveness of palm oil Indonesia in the global market.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – To implement sustainable palm oil cultivation, the stakeholders from many organizations, civil organizations, and the smallholders agreed to implement Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) scheme in Columbia.

InfoSAWIT, PALEMBANG – The government through PT Pertamina (Persero) is now developing environmental fuel. According to Minister of Energy and Mineral Resource, Ignasius Jonan, it is the obligation to develop environmental fuel as the part of world civilization and as citizen of Indonesia.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA - In 2005, there was a change on the popularity of the vegetable oil in the world. Palm oil influences the change. Crude palm oil (CPO) and crude palm kernel oil (CPKO) become the attention of the world. They are very potential as the material of the vegetable oil, not only used to food material, but also to non – food oil.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA - For the smallholders, it is a common thing to do when cultivating palm oil randomly. But it would decrease their income for the cultivation not based on Best Management Practices (BMP) would decrease the productivity and the potential of production would be out of reach.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA - The palm oil plantation company, ever since it operated commercially in Indonesia has done partnership with the smallholders. The partnership schemes are plasma partnership, independent partnership, bank credit partnership, and other development partnerships.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Tun Musa Hitam, a simple figure of Malaysia likes to discuss about business and the interests of the villagers. In his mind, palm oil plantations in Malaysia and Indonesia are important to increase the economy of the people and maintain the diversity around.