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InfoSAWIT, BENGKULU – Bengkulu Province through Regional Financial Management Agency did discussion about the 2023 palm oil profit sharing on Monday (4/12). It was running in the hall of one hotel in City of Bengkulu. It also involved officials in General Directorate of Treasury, Land Agency, head of Regional Finance Management Agency, districts/cities in, Public Works and People’s Housing, plantation agencies in Bengkulu Province.

InfoSAWIT, DUBAI – To realize the 2060 net zero emission (NZE) targets, PT Pertamina (Persero) successfully implemented series of program that really delivered impacts. The achievements were described in the 2023 Conference of the Parties (COP) 28 in United Arab Emirates.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Crude palm oil (CPO) tender at PT. Kharisma Pemasaran Bersama Nusantara (KPBN) decreased to be Rp 11.175/kg, Monday (4/12/2023). It means it got cheaper Rp 70/kg or about 0,62% compared to Friday (1/12/2023) tender that was Rp 11.245/kg.

InfoSAWIT, PALANGKA RAYA – Fresh fruit bunch (TBS) stealing in many palm oil plantations in Central Kalimantan Proince is the issue now. For instance, hundreds of villagers of Suka Mandang, Sub district of Seruyan Tengah, District of Seruyan, Central Kalimantan took part in massive harvest in palm oil plantations in the region.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Ministry of Agriculture through General Directorate of Plantation commits to maintain and provide plantation seeds particularly palm oil both in numbers and quality.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Crude palm oil (CPO) contract price at Malaysia Derivatives Exchange decreased for the second session in a row on Monday, as same as other vegetable oils got cheaper and Malaysia ringgit got increased. The traders waited for the next situation.

InfoSAWIT, PASER – East Kalimantan Plantation Agency is in cooperation with certification institution, TSI to conduct Indonesia Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) audit in Koperasi Produsen (KP) Bumi Subur, Village of Kerta Bumi, Sub district of Kuaro, on Thursday (30/11). Head of Plantation Agency East Kalimantan Province, Ahmad Muzakkir said that the audit was part of ISPO for smallholders’ plantations as the way to encourage ISPO certification in independent smallholders’ plantations, as same as President’s Instruction Number 44 / 2020.

InfoSAWIT, SIMPANGKATIS – Regent of Bangka Tengah, Algafry Rahman led the first palm oil harvest in Kebun Sarnubi, Village of Celuak, Sub district of Simpangkatis. In the activity which joined smallholders replanting program (SRP) that smallholders’ group - Tani Suka Makmur did, Alfafry directly cut off fresh fruit bunch (FFB) as the symbol of hard work for 32 months.

InfoSAWIT, BENGKALIS – An innovative partnership between service team of Faculty of Social and Political Science Universitas Riau (Unri) and Environment Fund Management Agency (EFMA) paid off by making palm oil sticks to be economical handy-crafts. The collaboration involved the villagers of Hutan Panjang and Darul Aman, Sub district of Rupat that they are mostly the members of The Akit.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Climate changes have been crisis in the globe that everyone should not ignore. General Secretary of the United Nations told that the world is in the global warming era and the impacts really happen in Indonesia. In this country many disasters happen within intensive frequency, such as, flood, wind, storm, highly sea wave, drought and fire in the forest that burned one million hectares of forests in 2023. The impacts are about to get fail harvest, disease spread, the broken coral reefs, and even the loss of certain island and regions in Indonesia.

InfoSAWIT, DUBAI – President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) emphasized the commitment of Indonesia to develop sustainable and prosperous country within inclusive economy. In the Conference of Parties (COP) 28 about climate change in Dubai, President Jokowi told that Indonesia would realize net zero emission in 2060 while doing the best to highly get economic progress, minimize poverty, and social gaps.

InfoSAWIT, DUBAI – President Joko Widodo and Prime Minister of Norway Jonas Gahr Støre did good cooperation in bilateral meeting in World Climate Action Summit (WCAS) Conference of Parties (CoP)28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Friday (1/12/2023). The men discussed some issues, including the environmental cooperation between Indonesia and Norway.

InfoSAWIT, KOBAR – The Government of Indonesia re-confirmed its strategic commitment to escalate palm oil plantation productivity in national scale through national strategic program particularly through the initiative – smallholders replanting program (SRP). The goal is about to revitalize more than 25 year old - plantations where the trees are not productive. Though new challenges raise, SRP would be the basic one to develop new economic source for smallholders.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA –Holding Perkebunan Nusantara PTPN III (Persero) announced the ambitious action by getting merger 13 subsidiaries to be two sub holdings, they are, PalmCo and SupportingCo. It is a real decision to support national strategic program to realize independency namely in food and energy sectors.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – PT Austindo Nusantara Jaya Tbk. (ANJ) keeps showing its commitment to transparently implement good business in good corporate governance (GCG) and sustainable principles. On Monday (27/11) ANJ got Annual Report Award (ARA) 2023 in non-financial Go Public category with the third rank. It was handed over in the main hall of Bursa Efek Indonesia (BEI), Jakarta.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – General Director of Plantation Ministry of Agriculture, Andi Nur Alam Syah was worry because there was no clear integrated cooperation with Palm Oil Plantation Fund Management Agency (PFMA) and Lembaga Kebijakan Pengadaan Barang Jasa Pemerintah (LKPP). He even firmly reminded that infrastructure procurement for smallholders replanting program (SRP) should use e-E – catalogue rather than having auction for it would spend much time.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Crude palm oil (CPO) reference price used to determine out fee (OF) and tariff on Palm Oil Plantation Fund Management Agency (PFMA) that is famously known as export duty in the first period of December 2023 would be US$ 795,14/metric ton (MT). The numbers escalated US$ 44,60 or 5,94 percent from on 16 - 30 November 2023 that was US$ 750,54/MT.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Crude palm oil (CPO) tender at PT. Kharisma Pemasaran Bersama Nusantara (KPBN) decreased to be Rp 11.245/kg on Friday (1/12/2023). It means it got cheaper Rp 123/kg or about 1,08% compared to Thursday (30/11/2023) tender that was Rp 11.368/kg.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Indonesian Bank (IB) officially announced to revoke coin distribution of rupiah, including 500 year of emission (YoE) 1991, 1.000 YoE 1993, and 500 YoE 1997. This is done through the implementation of the Regulation of Indonesian Bank Number 14 / 2023 that started on 1 December 2023.

InfoSAWIT, KUALA LUMPUR – Crude palm oil (CPO) contract price at Malaysia Derivatives Exchange got decreased on Friday (1/12/2023) to the lowest level since October 2023. It was the loss for the second week because other vegetable oil got cheaper and the decreasing demands.