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InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA -Actually the European Union (EU) policy in biofuel from palm oi has been running since 1990s, precisely in 1998. EU Commission published Directive to vanish premium having Pb, started to use diesel and the transportation to reduce the emission was introduced for the first time.

InfoSAWIT, NUSA DUA – Palm oil plantations in Indonesia substitute the waste, such as, palm oil mill effluent (POME) and empty fruit bunch (EFB) to be compost. This is done for it is usefull to save the fertilizer cost reaching about 10%.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA - Palm oil trade barrier would never stop. For example, in the late days, palm oil biodiesel is banned to be sold in European Union. It would be effective in 2021.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA–The crude palm oil(CPO) referential price to make Out Fee (OF) in May 2018 is US$ 703,20/metric ton (MT). It gets cheaper US$ 8,42 or 1,18% from it in April 2018 that was US$ 711,62/MT.

InfoSAWIT, NUSA DUA -  International Conference on Oil Palm and Environment (ICOPE) 2018 emphasized that it is important to empower the smallholders to support the sustainability in the future. In the discussion panel “Smallholder: Reaching Sustainability” – many speakers from United Nation Development Program(UNDP) Indonesia, Universitas Jambi, Sinar Mas Agribusiness and Food shared some programs that the stakeholders have done in palm oil sector, such as, the arrangement of national action plan, smallholders’ empowerment to prevent the fire in the forests, and the replanting program.

InfoSAWIT, Nusa Dua –In 2018 the government agreed to do replanting program for the people covering 185 thousand hectares. Unfortunately, the program would be blocked by the area status.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – PT Sawit Sumbermas Sarana Tbk (SSMS) announced the significant increasing profit reaching Rp787,1 billion, or increased 33,7% compared to last year profits in the same period in previous year (year-on-year/YoY).

InfoSAWIT, BOGOR –The economic practice in palm oil plantation is not done by the wealthy only but also by the smallholders. The smallholders working in the upstream sector might be reaching 37% - 42% of the total palm oil plantations. In Indonesia, it is believed that palm oil plantations where the smallholders cultivate might be more than 50% of the total palm oil areas. Unfortunately their role, namely the independent ones, might not be important. They may be the complementary only in the chain of palm oil business.

InfoSAWIT, Nusa Dua –The research result done by Universitas Jambi showed that the sustainable practices increase the productivity.

InfoSAWIT, PALEMBANG  — Cargill, one palm oil plantation company is in cooperation with Konsorsium Kemitraan Pengelolaan Lanskap, KELOLA Sendang,an environmental program to protect the high conservation values (HCV) to support the holistic restoration project in District of Banyuasin, South Sumatera province, Indonesia.

Infosawit, Nusa Dua –The massive bad news about palm oil have changed the perspectives of the nowadays youth, such as, palm oil has negative influences. Miss Earth Indonesia, 2017, Michelle Victoria Alrianihad the same.

InfoSAWIT, SINGAPURA  - Golden Agri-Resources (GAR) announced the success of the company to 100% of traceability to the plantation for 44 palm oil factories (POFs) belonging to GAR itself. It means, about 39% of the crude palm oil (CPO) production of GAR could be fully traced in 2017. In the same time, GAR now cooperates with 427 other independent suppliers to map their

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – When the global demands to palm oil from Indonesia were not good, palm oil production from Indonesia was not maximal too.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA –Corruption Eradication Commission (CEC) indicated that 81% of palm oil exports from Indonesia were mastered by 16 groups. The data was taken from Ministry of Trade from July 2015 to March 2016,

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Based on the report of Indonesian Palm Oil Association (IPOA), in February 2018 palm oil exports from Indonesia decreased about 14%. In the period, the global crude palm oil (CPO) was cheap about US$652.50 – US$ 685 permetric ton.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA - NASPON has big duty to support and strengthen the sustainable palm oil market collaboration in North America. Through its existence, the missions of NASPON are to educate the markets (countries) to develop the same commitment, to help the companies in North America to realize their commitment to use sustainable palm oil.

InfoSAWIT, JAMBI –Ministry of External Affairs, Indonesia, Palm oil Plantation Fund Management Agency (PFMA), Provincial Government of Jambi, and Universitas Jambi did Palm Oil Executive Program to the Ambassadors of European Union on 16-18 April 2018 in Jambi. The program proposed by Badan Perencanaan dan Pengembangan Kebijakan, Ministry of External Affairs was joined by many stakeholders in palm oil sector.

InfoSAWIT, JAMBI –For the smallholders in Indonesia, it is a must to have Cultivation Documents. This is to know the data of the width and where their plantations are.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA -Since in the midst of 2016, many things have been done to strengthen the sustainable practices which are summarized in the regulation Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO), such as, through discussion and dialogue.

InfoSAWIT, PEKANBARU – Based on the decision of fresh fruit bunch (FFB) Price Team in Riau Province, No. 16, on 18 to 24 April 2018, the 10-20 year old is decreasingRp 17,77/Kg.