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Gowa–Regional Government of Gowa through the local Social, Workers, and Transmigration Agent in  2014 will send Indonesian workers to Malaysia as palm oil labor.

JAKARTA – The usage of worse seeds makes Bakrie Group develop its own palm oil seeds. According to Yohannes Samosir of Bakrie Research Institute, it is planned to be sold commercially in the next year.

KOTAPINANG –Campaigners of Green Labusel Community (GLC) accused the peatland in South Labuhan Batu especially in Subdistrict of.Kampungrakyat turned into palm oil plantation. dijadikan perkebunan kelapa sawit.

JAKARTA – Indonesian Palm Oil Plantation Businessmen (IPOPB) said, Indonesia is the biggest producer of crude palm oil (CPO) and become the hope of the mankind’s welfare in the future.

JAKARTA –El-Nino storm which will be happening in ASEAN regions including Indonesia on June – September will decrease the productivity and crude palm oil CPO exports.

MANDYA–Though being in drought for last three years, palm oil cultivation in district of Mandya, India have been planted. But they still hope that the rain will come soon.

JAKARTA – Environmental issues and social conflicts keeps happening in Indonesian palm oil industries especially Indonesia is well known as the biggest producer in the world.

SINGAPURA – A company running its business in palm oil, Golden Agri Resources Ltd in the first quarter (1Q2014) noted its profits about US$ 1,914 or increasing 34% than the same period in last year which were US$ US$ 1,430.

JAKARTA – Near Ramadhan, Indonesian CPO and the derivatives decreased. It decreased 23% from 1,79 millions of tons in March to be 1,38 millions of tons in April.

PALANGKARAYA –Province of East Kalimantan is officially pronounced as the Pioneer Province to do REDD+ programme through Decision No. SK-010/BP REDD+/05/2014 by Administrator Board(AB)Reducing Emmission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+ )

PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Nature Customary of Collingwood Bay won the Claim on Kuala Lumpur Kepong Ltd ( KLK ) in the National Court of Papua New Guinea. KLK was found guilty for acquiring about 38.000 hectares nature area without their agreement to be palm oil plantations.

PALANGKARAYA – Government of Central Kalimantan together with Board of REDD+  on Friday, (25/5/2014) commemorated its provincial birthday the 57th with the theme “Mutual aid in local wisdom-base to develop peace, and wealth Central Kalimantan.”

SIBU - Ta Ann Pelita Silas Plantation Sdn Bhd, a joint-venture palm oil company between Ta Ann Holdings Bhd and Land Custody and Development Authority (LCDA), had given incentive  RM1.324mil for 509 participants.

KUALA LUMPUR - THPlantations Berhard now has about 98.000 hectares in Malaysia – about 60.000 hektar have been planted by palm. It was official report fromTHPlantations in the press release got byInfoSAWIT, Wednesday (21/5/2014).

JAKARTA – By this moment, farmers’ palm oil productivities are quite small. So the government; besides helping to increase the productivities, also asked the private sectors – which contributed 50% in palm oil plantation – for increasing the farmers’ welfare

Pontianak –The cheap price of rubber commodity for the farmers made them togetherly to cultivate palm oil. Marius (47) a rubber farmer in District of Landak, Sunday (25/5), said, in last three year, the rubber price got decreasing and by this week it also did.

SAMARINDA – One by one, the investor starts to run their business in Kawasan Industri Pelabuhan Internasional (KIPI) Maloy, or International Port Industrial Region. Saturday (24/4/2014), PT Indonesia Plantation Energy (IPS) presented their plans to found integrated palm oil industry there.

BALIKPAPAN –Indonesian Palm Oil Businessmen Association (IPOBA) East Kalimantan thought, what the Government of the Province would do to enlarge palm oil plantation to be 1,4 millions hectare for five year to go was a realistic action. But it should have commitment from all sides involving in it.

JAKARTA - PT Austindo Nusantara Jaya Tbk tercatat keeps expanding. This year the companywill found one palm oil factory(POF), enlarge the planted area and make infrastructres to support palm oil and sagu plantations. The company allocates US$ 80 millions to those expansions. \

JAKARTA – Tominimize the fast negative issues to national palm oil industries, Chairman of Indonesian Plantation Businessmen Association, Soedjai Kartasasmita suggested to multiply diplomats in palm oil. “There should be diplomats,” Soedjai said to InfoSAWIT, Monday (26/5/2014).