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JAKARTA - Serikat Petani Kelapa Sawit (SPKS), Sawit Watch, IHCS, Greenpeace, Serikat Petani Indonesia (SPI), AURIGA, OPPUK and Konsorsium Pembaharuan Agraria (KPA) which are joined in Civil Coalition search for justice and criticize the Regulation No 39 / 2014.

TANJUNG REDEB – Regional Government of Berau keeps trying many things so that every village gets electricity power. Besides Steam Electricity Power in Lati which coal as the material, the Regent also asks the palm oil factory to advantage palm oil liquid waste as the material for the electricity.

MAMUJU – Head of Cultivation and Plantation Result Marketing, Plantation Agency, West Sulawesi Province, Abdul Waris Bestar, Friday (13/2) mentioned, illegal and fake seeds have been spreaded in West Sulawesi. This makes the farmers get lost for there is no good production.

SAMARINDA - Nilai Tukar Petani Tanaman Perkebunan Rakyat (NTPR) or People’s Plantation Farmers Change Value in Kalimantan in January increased 1,41%, that was, 105,42% than it in December 2014 which reaching 103.95%.

PALAS - The ladies in Palm Oil Factory in Village Lubuk Bunut, Subdistrict Hutaraja Tinggi (Huragi), District of Padang Lawas (Palas) get the new job, that is, cutting off the fruit from its bunches.

KUALA LUMPUR - In last few decades, cancer has become one dangerous disease to threat the man's life. The medicines have been tried to prevent or reduce it by the experts. 

SINGAPURA - One big palm oil company, Wilmar International Limited reported, palm oil fruit production in the fourth quarter 2014 (Q4 2014) decreased 7% to be 1,1 millions tons. 

BALIKPAPAN – Black campaigns which the foreign environmental non government organizations (NGOs) do still become the obstacles to develop national palm oil industries, namely in East Kalimantan Province.

JAKARTA  - The problems in palm oil plantations seem everlasting, starting from the environment, employee, fuel, until the slow finding of sophisticated technology. As the result, the victim is the decreasing national competitiveness.

BANGKOK – Government of Thailand agreed to import crude palm oil (CPO) about 50 thousands of tons from Malaysia in February 2015. This is done to anticipate the lacks of stocks of CPO for the drought. 

KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysian International Trade Industry (MITI) hoped, in 2015, the total exports could be surplus in the kosher industry or could be more than the 2013 export which reaching RM 32 billions. 

KAMERUN – To increase crude palm oil (CPO) productivity about 26% in the next three years, Government of Cameroon plans to plant superior palm oil seeds.

JAKARTA – Through Partnership for Indonesia Agriculture Sustainable (PISAgro), Indonesia wants to increase the agriculturall productivity and supports the national and the world food security.

JAKARTA – Until this moment, palm oil still has many problems to solve to increase the industry which is said as one efforts to solve the poverty.

JAKARTA  - Besides environmental issue, employees in palm oil sectors should be considered. Just Malaysia, the country is difficult to hire employees. They should import them but they decrease their profits of CPO.

MAMUJU – To solve the fertilizer scarcity to fertilize palm oil plantation in West Sulawesi Province, Plantation Agency of the province should do quick move, that is, to call the distributor of the fertilizer.

JAMBI –Based on the decision of price making team in Plantation Agency ofJambi Province for 13 – 19 February 2015, the three year old fruit increases Rp 33/kg to be from the previous which was Rp1.311/Kg.

JAKARTA–To increase the national food security, there are many efforts which the stakeholders do, such as, Partnership for Indonesia's Sustainable Agriculture (PIS-Agro).

SINGAPURA – One giant company, Wilmar International Limited reported in the last quarter 2014 (Q4 2014), the company’s income decreased 7,3% to be 7,3% US$ 10.777.691.000 than the same period in 2013 which was US$ 11.621.573.000.

SINGAPURA –Big palm oil company, Golden Agri-Resources Ltd (GAR), declared, that the company will release the monetary report of 2014.