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InfoSAWIT, PEKANBARU – According to Fresh Fruit Bunch (FFB) Price Decision Team in Riau Province, No. 13 on 28 March to  03 April 2018, the 10 to 20 year old fruit gets higher about Rp 25,71/Kg.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Holding Perkebunan Nusantara, one company cultivating palm oil, rubber, cocoa, tea, coffee, and others, signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) about Credit Agreement with PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia Agroniaga, Tbk (BRI Agro) to distribute Modal Credit about Rp 500 billion.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA –In the early of this year, PT Sawit Sumbermas Sarana (SSMS) Tbk., haspublished global bond reaching US$ 300 millionthrough its subsidiary in Singapore and has more four times of demands.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Palm oil sector in Indonesia has become one national business strategy. Besides it has become the source of work for 4,2 million men directly and 12 million men indirectly.

InfoSAWIT, TAIPEI –General Director of National Export Development, Ministry of Trade, Arlinda noticed that Indonesia and Taiwan have massive potential to increase the trade cooperation. “We know the big opportunity to increase the trade relationship between Indonesia and Taiwan, namely because Indonesia has targeted to increase the exports to Taiwan reaching 7,8% in 2018. We are optimist to get the target because Indonesia and Taiwan have positive economic progress,” she said in the official statement to InfoSAWIT, Friday (23/3/2018).

InfoSAWIT, Taipei– Indonesia is counted on as the country having predicate in ease of doing business. General Director of National Export Development, Ministry of Trade, Arlinda said that in front of 200 businessmen and stakeholders from Indonesia and Taiwan in Indonesia-Taiwan, Business Forum, Friday (23/3). Held in Taiwan World Trade Center, Taipei, the business forum is series of trade mission done by Ministry of Trade that Arlinda led on 22-25 March 2018.

InfoSAWIT, BOGOR – Parliamentof European Union has legitimated the energy proposal draft, called,"Report on the Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Promotion of the use of Energy from Renewable Sources"after voting in the hall of European Parliament, Strasbourg, French. In the proposal, it is written to eliminate biodiesel usage in palm oil – base.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA - Balai Besar Konservasi Sumber Daya Alam (BBKSDA) West Kalimantan signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with 4 (four) subsidiaries of Bumitama Gunajaya Agro (BGA).

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Ministry of Enterprises added the commissioners in Holding Perkebunan Nusantara PTPN III (Persero) as parts of supervision in the company. Secretary of Enterprises, RiniSoemarno pointed ArieYuriwin as the member of Commissioner Board in PTPN III (Persero); Desty Arlaini as the Member of Commissioner in PTPN II; and Mahmud as the member of PTPN VI.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA -The study result of Greenomics Indonesia showed that in 2004-2017, the forest areas that were released to be plantation license for the particular businessmen (stakeholders)reached more than 2,4 million hectares or more than about 36 times of DKI Jakarta.

InfoSAWIT, TAIPEI –After succeeding the trade mission in New Zealand, Ministry of Trade continued the same to Taiwan. It is led by General Director of National Export Development, Arlinda and takes 79 businessmen and stakeholders from Indonesia. The trade mission itself would be running from 22 – 25 March 2018 in the series of Indonesian Week 2018 exhibition.

InfoSAWIT, PEKANBARU -According to the meeting result of Fresh Fruit Bunch (FFB) Team in Riau Province, No. 12 on  21 to 27 March 2018, the 10 t0 20 year old fruit decreases about Rp 16,71/Kg.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA –Palm oil plantation industrial development gives many chances to the businessmen (stakeholders). The increasing crude palm oil (CPO) production would give the big opportunity to the CPO processing industries that would make environmental and renewable products within the main goal, the better exports.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA –Actually, developing palm oil human resources (HR) still needs clear roadmap. Even after Palm oil Plantation Fund Management Agency (PFMA) formulated the research roadmap, it should actually be continued with the roadmap of HR development. But the formulation of palm oil HR could not be randomly done for it should be in synergy with the roadmap of industrial development.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA –The cheaper crude palm oil (CPO) in the early of 2016 to the midst of 2017 became the reason for the government and the stakeholders to realize export citation or famously known as Crude palm oil Supporting Fund (CSF). It is collected from every CPO and derivative export to develop palm oil industries nationally.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA  - Eight household brands, such as, PZ Cussons, Johnson & Johnson, and Kraft Heinz rejected to reveal where their palm oil stocks were. They had promised to stop buying palm oil from the companies that may damage the forest. While the other eight, such as, Nestlé and Unilever have been transparent to their palm oil chain of stock.

InfoSAWIT, WELLINGTON – By Monday (19/3), the trade mission of Ministry of Trade to New Zealand got the potential transaction reaching US$ 9,74 million from the negotiation of coffee product, workers in plantation and mechine, derivative products of crude palm oil, fertilizer, and food and drink.

INFOSAWIT, NUSA DUA –Coordinator Minister in Economy, Darmin Nasution said, the partnership scheme between big plantation companies and the people’s plantation in palm oil industries could be the model to be imitated by other commodities. “We have to make palm oil plantation as one model that cooperation between the people’s plantation and the big plantation is important,” he said in the spare time of 13^th Indonesian Palm Oil Conference 2017 that InfoSAWIT also attended.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – It is admitted or not, palm oil develops fast. From hundreds hectares to be dozen million of hectare. Palm oil is developed not only in Indonesia but also in Malaysia.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – As one educational institution focusing to palm oil plantation, Politeknik Kelapa Sawit Citra Widya Edukasi (Poltek Kelapa Sawit CWE) supports the Musyarawah Nasional (Munas) or national meeting the 10th of Indonesian Palm Oil Association (IPOA) in Hotel Fairmont, Jakarta on 14-16 March 2018.