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InfoSAWIT, MAMUJU – West Sulawesi Province keeps trying its best to manage palm oil area conflict between PT Astra Agro Lestari Tbk., and the villagers in Regency of Pasangkayu.

InfoSAWIT, DEN HAAG – General Secretary of Council of Palm Oil Producing Countries (CPOPC), Dr. Rizal A. Lukman led the delegations of CPOPC to meet the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA). It was about to get deeper discussion about the readiness before European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) would be implemented in December 2024 in all countries in the continent.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA - Marks & Spencer (M&S) dedicated to get palm oil responsibly. The policy of the company confirmed that every supplier shuld obey every term and condition, including the association and conversion, and also respect regulation, and human rights.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – General Directorate of Plantation published Circulars Number 441/SE/SM.120/E/05/2024 which was about the extension for student candidate registration to get scholarship in Pengembangan Sumber Daya Manusia Perkebunan Kelapa Sawit (SDMPKS) in affirmation for 2024. It happened for until 24 May 2024, the student candidate registration did not reach maximal quota up to 900.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA - Palm oil biodiesel production in Indonesia positively showed the good trend until 2023 that reached 13,1 million kiloliters (kl). Of the numbers, 12,2 million kl were distributed, while the exports reached 187.810 kl. This showed that biodiesel mandatory program ran well and positively delivered impacts for biodiesel industries nationally.

InfoSAWIT, PASAMAN BARAT – Regency of West Pasaman, West Sumatera Province through its Badan Penelitian dan Pengembangan Daerah (Balitbangda) was reviewing the potential to produce brown sugar from palm oil tree water. This is hoped to be the new source of income for the local.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Sending (a) products could be a big challenge namely when handling over the final products to mills at a certain time and deriving from sustainable palm oil.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA - Though being taken as small scale - planters, the smallholders are massive in numbers in many palm oil plantation centers. Unfortunately, they who persistently cultivate theirs, always become the defeated parties.

InfoSAWIT, JAMBI - Head of Plantation Agency Jambi Province, Agus Rizal said that the province within 1.134.640 hectares palm oil plantations would be the significant landscape in palm oil plantation industries in Indonesia. The numbers consisted of 66,66% of the smallholders’ plantations, 30,33% of the big private companies, and 3,01% of the Enterprises. This sector has big potential to welfare the planters and contribute planters in RAD KSB implementation or agrarian reformation and natural resource distribution.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Sustainable palm oil in Netherland started much longer and becomes the significant history in the country. In around 2006 the basic things were formulated to produce technical components needed for the initiative.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA - Godrej Agrovet Limited (GAVL) has been involving in palm oil upstream business for the past 30 years in India. It is the biggest palm oil producer in the country by involving about 30 thousand smallholders and six mills in the country, produced about 120 thousand tons of crude palm oil in every year.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Sustainability in agriculture would be very significant. It covers three main pillars, environmental, economic, and social sustainability. Sustainable agriculture integrated the three pillars to confirm the long term – productivity and ecology balance.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – The Ambassador of Italy for Indonesia, Benedetto Latteri delivered announcement that the Government of Italy and the private sectors in the country offered technical solution for export mainstay products from Indonesia, such as, crude palm oil and coffee for getting the impacts from European Union Deforestation Regulation. One offered innovation is certification scheme to confirm the obedience in EUDR.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – One latest innovation in palm oil industries was the application of artificial intelligence (AI) technology. It could detect fresh fruit bunch (FFB) maturity level and calculate FFB numbers in gathering spot automatically.

InfoSAWIT, WEST BANGKA– Tens of villagers of Air Nyatoh came by to the local village office. They rejected palm oil plantation agreement that some smallholders’ groups made with the stakeholder in Sub district of Simpang Teritip, Regency of West Bangka, Kepulauan Bangka Belitung Province.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA - European Union Deforestation-free Regulation (EUDR) that would officially be implemented in 2025 is serious concern for many exporter stakeholders and planters including palm oil in Indonesia. The regulation would require evidences that every exported commodity in plantation sectors should not be from high risks in deforestation.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Ministry of Trade keeps studying the possible substitution about export ratio in the domestic market obligation for crude palm oil (CPO). Until now the terms and conditions in CPO DMO to secure and supply palm cooking oil needs in this country still apply the same regulation.

InfoSAWIT, JAMBI – According to Fresh Fruit Bunch (FFB) Team of Jambi Province on 24-30 May 2024, it is decided that the 10 – 20 year old FFB is getting escalated Rp 14,58/Kg to be Rp 2.752,44/Kg.

InfoSAWIT, MEDAN – According to Fresh Fruit Bunch (FFB) Team of North Sumatera Province on 22-28 May 2024, it is decided that the 10 – 20 year old FFB is getting escalated Rp 20,91/kg to be Rp 2.857,61/Kg.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Crude palm oil (CPO) tender at PT. Kharisma Pemasaran Bersama Nusantara (KPBN) Inacom was Rp 12.172/kg on Wednesday (22/5/2024). It means, it got cheaper Rp 36/kg or about 0,29% to Tuesday (21/5/2024) tender that was Rp 12.208/kg.