JAKARTA When the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), the world’s largest association for ethical palm oil production, kicked off the second day of its annual roundtable conference on Nov. 21, there was a festive atmosphere. During the opening ceremony in a gigantic ballroom at a luxury five-star hotel in Jakarta, a number of dancers […]
JAKARTA Indonesia and Malaysia, the world’s top two producers of palm oil, have set up a joint task force with the European Union to address their differences over a new law making it harder for the ubiquitous commodity to enter the EU. The governments of Indonesia and Malaysia, which together account for about 85% […]
JAKARTA Only a fifth of Indonesian palm oil companies are compliant with a requirement to allocate part of their land to smallholder farmers, according to official data. The government’s audit agency, the BPKP, found that only 21% of 2,864 plantation firms in the country had allocated the mandatory 20% of their concessions to communities under […]
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