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InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Crude palm oil (CPO) tender at PT. Kharisma Pemasaran Bersama Nusantara (KPBN) got better to be Rp 12.100/kg on Tuesday (3/1/2023). It means it got better Rp 500/Kg compared to Friday (23/12/2022) tender which was Rp 11.600/kg. It was the highest in the early trade of 2023.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA - The proposal of commission to RED III would apply some amendments, such as, Chapter 26 in RED II specifically regulated for biofuel, bioliquids, and biomass fuel which were produced from food plantation, animal woof, including palm oil.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – The publication of Government Regulation in Liew of Law Number 2 / 2022 about Cipta Kerja could end the polemic about unconstitutional Undang-Undang Cipta Kerja (UUCK) with some condition, reinforce and legitimate the solution for non-permit palm oil plantations in forest regions that Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MEF) implements.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA - Communication is needed to develop relation in palm oil plantations. Through effective communication, every message and information would be told as good as possible.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA - It is not easy thing to take smallholders to implement sustainable palm oil practices. It needs innovation and unique ways so that they would join it, such as, identity politics just like Asosiasi Petani Kelapa Sawit Mandiri (APKSM) did.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA - For its various function, dump truck is one kind of transportation to support the operational in the plantations. It needs good management and services to realize maximal operational outcome.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA - European Commission proposed significant changes about double calculation systems that refer the approach in RED II. Used palm cooking oil may be taken as waste and it needs to conduct double calculation for decarbonization in transportation sectors in EU. For instance, if used palm cooking oil consumption reached 2%, it would be calculated as 4% of the total energy use in transportation sector. There would be incentive when using palm cooking oil to realized renewable energy targets.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – If in the past few months, volume multiplier ratio to export approval of crude palm oil, refined, bleached and deodorized palm oil, refined, bleached and deodorized palm olein, and used cooking oil was 9 times, but after the result consideration in coordination meeting among related ministries/institutions about update export implementation and domestic market  obligation (DMO) of palm cooking oil for the people which Coordinator Ministry in Maritime and Investment conducted on 23 December 2022, multiplier ratio had been decided as the basic to get CPO, refined, bleached and deodorized palm oil, refined, bleached and deodorized palm olein, and used cooking oil export rights.

InfoSAWIT, SUBULUSSALAM – A mill employee of PT Bangun Sempurna Lestari (BSL) was found dead in sterilizer tube or boiling tube of fresh fruitbunch (FFB) on Friday (30/12/2022) at about 18.00 p.m.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Crude palm oil (CPO) reference price to decide Out Fee (OF) and levy on Public Service Obligation Palm Oil Plantation Fund Management Agency (PFMA) on 1 – 15 January 2023 are US$ 858,96/metric ton (MT). The numbers get cheaper US$ 13,03 or 1,49 percent than those on 16 – 31 December 2022, which was US$ 871,99/MT.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA - Smallholders replanting program (SRP) acceleration keeps running. It is believed that the program would positively deliver the good for palm oil plantation nationally because multiplying production should not be from new planting but from escalating plantation productivity.

InfoSAWIT, PELALAWAN - Komite Nasional Pemuda Indonesia (KNPI) Riau Province claimed that many illegal RAMs or (fresh fruit bunch trading) operate in District of Pelalawan Riau Province.

InfoSAWIT, BOGOR – To regulate and as the plantation development governance for the planters, the government needs to get Cultivation Documents as the base to decide plantation business policy for them.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Head of Advocacy Serikat Petani Kelapa Sawit (SPKS), Marselinus Andri said, partnership issues in palm oil plantations also takes consequences to the vast forest deforestation and land use change that the people cultivate to be palm oil plantations. Partnership with the people is the practice to legitimate the stakeholders to get new expansion in many villages in Indonesia.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – According to the end – year report (press conference) of Palm Oil Plantation Fund Management Agency (PFMA), the research and development (RD) program which runs since 2015 to 2022 has funded 279 researches and involved 950 researchers from 78 RD institutions in Indonesia and distributed fund that reached Rp 501,2 billion.

InfoSAWIT, KUALA LUMPUR – Crude palm oil (CPO) at Bursa Malaysia Derivative Exchange got cheaper on Friday (23/12/2022), heading to long holidays by the late of this year. It was getting cheaper for the second week for other vegetable oils at Dalian Exchange got cheaper too.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Crude palm oil (CPO) tender at PT. Kharisma Pemasaran Bersama Nusantara (KPBN) increased to be Rp 11.600/kg on Friday (23/12/2022). It means, it increased Rp 10/Kg compared to Thursday (22/12/2022) tender which was Rp 11.590/kg.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Partnership as the key to welfare smallholders is a slogan only. According to Serikat Petani Kelapa Sawit (SPKS) partnership in palm oil plantations namely within profit sharing system in many schemes, including one stop service, led the villagers to poverty, conflicts which eventually made the people loss their land and the threat to vaster deforestation in many villages in Indonesia.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Director of Palm Oil Plantation Fund Management Agency (PFMA), Eddy Abdurachman said, PFMA’s first program realization is smallholders replanting program (SRP).

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – The employees or workers are generally divided into four groups, they are, the daily workers, often called as SKU, freelance or often called as BHL, the monthly workers – in brief it is MW, and the last group is the staff who is the head division to the top management.