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InfoSAWIT, PANGKALAN KERINCI – Last week, the Village of Terantang Manuk, Sub district of Pangkalan Kuras, District of Pelalawan was not conducive from the afternoon to the evening. It started when some police officers came with complete guns and tried to block the villagers who harvested their fresh fruit bunch which was in partnership with PT Safari Riau, a subsidiary of Malaysian company in the form of Kebun Koperasi Primer Anggota (KKPA).

InfoSAWIT, JAMBI – According to Fresh Fruit Bunch (FFB) Team Decision in Jambi province, the 10-20 year old fruit is getting better Rp 41,81/Kg to be Rp 1.336/Kg.

InfoSAWIT, JAMBI – According to Fresh Fruit Bunch (FFB) Team Decision in Jambi Province, the 10-20 year old fruit is getting better Rp 43,9/Kg to be Rp 1.302,38/Kg.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Asian Agri re-emphasized its commitment to support and become the partner of the government of Indonesia to promote sustainable palm oil industries nationally.

InfoSAWIT, PELAMBANG – According to Fresh Fruit Bunch (FFB) Team Decision in South Sumatera,  the 10-20 year old fruit is getting better Rp 73,94/kg to be Rp 1.287,92/Kg.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Senior Advisor from President’s Staff Office, Abetnego Tarigan said that the success of palm oil plantation development in many regions is supported by many people who involve in it. So every side should support it. “The people should actively involve to develop sustainable palm oil to get the economic profits to welfare their lives,” Abetnego said in Palm Oil Discussion for the Country, Vol. 2 within the theme “Peningkatan Peran BPDP Kelapa Sawit Dalam Pengembangan Sawit: Minyak Sawit Sebagai Bio-Energi” in Hotel Akmani, Jakarta, Wednesday (9/1/2019).

InfoSAWIT, SAMARINDA – For all these years, the government through Ministry of Finance has made tax from every crude palm oil (CPO) export deriving from many regions including East Kalimantan.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA - PT Sahabat Mewah dan Makmur (SMM), the subsidiary of PT Austindo Nusantara Jaya Tbk (ANJ) Group, got Green ‘Program Penilaian Peringkat Kinerja Perusahaan (PROPER)’ in 2018 as the confession to the sustainable and environmental cultivation which is as one condition in the regulation.

InfoSAWIT, PEKANBARU – According to the Fresh Fruit Bunch (FFB) Team in Riau Provinces from the Documents of FFB Decision on 9 to 15 January 2019, the 10 - 20 year old fruit gets better Rp 22,88/Kg to be Rp 1.445,85/kg.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA - Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) which is mandatorily done has certified the plantations about more than 3 million hectares. Based on 2018 data from Ministry of Agriculture, 467 ISPO certificates had been published and given to the planters.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA -Chief Operation Officer (COO) PT Sampoerna Agro Tbk, ParluhutanSitohang said that the palm oil plantation development in the future would be more complex knowing that many issues also develop both in the world and in the local.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA -Though palm oil plantation development faces many issues, such as, deforestation, fire, area status, and climate changes, but the facts showed, it keeps going on.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA - Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) is the international non-profit organization which struggles for promoting sustainable palm oil usage for the world. While Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) run by ISPO Commission regulated by the government also promotes sustainable palm oil to the global society.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA –For palm oil plantations are mostly in the remote areas and wide, there are ways to keep improving the sustainability in palm oil plantations Chairman of Indonesia Planters Society (IPS), Zulham S Koto said that it could be done by Color Management of Work,

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA -It is believed that palm oil plantations would always be developing in the future knowing that the high demands of crude palm oil (CPO) in the global markets. But the development would face issues. Beside the environment, social friction should be a concern too in the field. In addition, it is not easy to develop palm oil plantations.

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

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA - Palm oil plantations develop fast in Indonesia. It is no question that for years, there are many new palm oil plantation companies. Some of them are in the exchange to be the open ones. One of them is PT Austindo Nusantara Jaya, Tbk., (ANJT).

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Besides the fund issues, as a matter of fact, the independent smallholders still face others. In general they have no access to increase their skills of cultivation, capacity, infrastructure to implement the sustainable practices.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA -Ganoderma has attacked palm oil plantations in Indnoesia fast. Many plantations should come to an end and there is no production anymore.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Four unions cultivating the smallholders’ palm oil plantations have multiplied the lists that get sustainable certificates in the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) version.