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InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Many focused on the fourth debate among president and vice president candidates on pada Monday (21/1/2024) evening in Jakarta. The focuses were about sustainable development issues, environment, natural resources, agrarian food, villages and indigenous people. Unfortunately, in the two hour-debate, every vice president candidate failed to  their whole mission about climate crisis as the complex issue that would impact to energy transition, food crisis, and other disasters.

InfoSAWIT, SAMPIT – District of Kotawaringin Timur (Kotim), Central Kalimantan Province is committed to optimize palm oil plantation empowerment particularly that independent smallholders cultivate. One thing that had been done was having workshop about reginal action plan sustainable palm oil or Rencana Aksi Daerah Kelapa Sawit Berkelanjutan (RAD-KSB) in the last days.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Crude palm oil (CPO) tender at PT. Kharisma Pemasaran Bersama Nusantara (KPBN) was Rp 12.100/kg on Monday (22/1/2024). It means there was no better price than Friday (19/1/2024) tender that was Rp 12.100/kg.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA - The fast palm oil plantation development implicates to the positive crude palm oil (CPO) production in Indonesia. The CPO export volume does too. Ministry of Agriculture noted that CPO and its derivatives export volume reached 12,3% within CPO and its derivative export value reached 14,1% in average.

InfoSAWIT, KUTAI TIMUR – One palm oil plantation company in District of Kutai Timur (Kutim), East Kalimantan Province, PT BMA was the focus of Kutim Legislators. It was assumed to develop palm oil plantations out of its business rights. The controversy raised in the hearing among Kutim Legislators with National Land Agency, Land Agency, Plantation Agency, Public Work and People’s Housing.

InfoSAWIT, MUKOMUKO – Agriculture Agency District of Mukomuko, Bengkulu Province informed that eight smallholders groups proposed to get smallholders replanting program (SRP) for having unproductive trees. It was known that they planted fake seeds and the trees are old now. The plantations lay about 1.644 hectares.

PEKANBARU – Governor of Riau, Edy Nasution would gather every palm oil stakeholder, regents, mayor, police, army, indigenous institution, land agencies to discuss about palm oil issues. It would be on Wednesday (24/1/2024) at Ruang Rapat Melati at 09.00 WIB.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA — Scholarship registration of Sinar Mas Agribusiness and Food 2024 is available now. It would be for 45 young talented ones that graduated from high, vocational, and religious schools from this country to study in diploma 3 (D3) at Institut Teknologi dan Sains Bandung (ITSB). Besides offering opportunity to study out of charge, the scholarship program would deliver chances to work at Sinar Mas Agribusiness and Food.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA - Chairman in Labor, Indonesian Palm Oil Association (IPOA), Sumarjono Saragih told that it is important to monitor and supervise the labor system on the groups which cultivate the plantation. It is about to know the labor protection and who they hire. “It always happened that palm oil industries burden the responsibility,” he said.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – On 10 January 2024, Traction Energy Asia, Trend Asia, and Forest Watch Indonesia (FWI) did online discussion with tim pemenangan nasional (TPN) from president and vice president candidates for 2024 – 2029. It discussed about bioenergy transition. It is urgent issue as many countries agreed with in the 28^th Conference of Parties (COP28) in Dubai. The target would be net zero emission in 2050 to use renewable energy.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA - Founder and Chairman of Yayasan PEKKA, Nani Zulminarni said that the female workers always face ‘no option’ when having negotiation. The weakest group in palm oil plantation worker should sacrifice their needs to get agreement from certain parts. “The concept of capitalist companies is that the freelancers are parts of the production but they are not partners,” she said.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – In Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) Meeting (RT2023) by the late of November 2023 there was something unusual, showed multi-function tractor. It was in the front lobby of hotel where the meeting took place.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Developing palm oil plantation could be a little bit difficult namely after knowing kinds of area and climate where to be developed. The next is to design the blocks and start developing. These are crucial to get successful cultivation. This article would discuss every essential step to develop it, from the block designs to new planting.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Palm oil plantation as one strategic commodity, should be planted by having deep understanding to its characteristic. Besides the planting, it needs to understand kinds of area, climate, strategies to design blocks in the plantations, zero burning, these would play important roles to get good production. In addition, understanding palm oil would be the good modal to get successful cultivation.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Crude palm oil (CPO) tender at PT. Kharisma Pemasaran Bersama Nusantara (KPBN) was Rp 12.100/kg on Friday (19/1/2024), It means it increased Rp 100/kg or about 0,83% compared to Thursday (18/1/2024) tender that was Rp 12.000/kg.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA - Indonesia, as one country that has abundant natural resources, plays important roles to realize sustainable development goals by developing green energy.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – To realize economic progress that would reach 7%, Indonesia needs to develop agro sector as one main pillar. One mainstay sector is palm oil plantations. But behind its potential, there are complex challenges to be solved and Indonesia would lead vegetable oil industries in the world.

InfoSAWIT, PALANGKARAYA – According to Fresh Fruit Bunch (FFB) Team of Central Kalimantan Province in the first period - January (1 - 15 January 2024), the 10 – 20 year old FFB is increasing Rp 42,85/Kg to be Rp 2.400,02/Kg.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MEF) recently announced 3,7 million hectares palm oil plantations in forest regions. The sentence was from chronology of events that made different data of palm oil plantations in Indonesia.

InfoSAWIT, Cilegon – In the recent days, a wedding ceremony was viral in a TikTok platform. Video uploaded by @nyimaslisaoktariani showed an incredible moment, a couple - just married got unexpectable special present in their wedding day.