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Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi earnestly appealed to the European Union (EU) to avoid discriminating against Indonesian palm oil, as the Southeast .
Search A worker carries oil palms into the truck in Mesuji Raya, Ogan Komering Ilir, South Sumatera, on June 9, 2019. (Antara Photo/Budi Candra Setya) Asean Leads by Example in Sustainable Vegetable Oil: Indonesia BY :JAYANTY NADA SHOFA APRIL 01, 2021
Jakarta. Indonesia once again spoke up against the singling out of palm oil, with the second round discussion on the vegetable oil between European Union, or EU, and Asean coming up this April.
The issue of sustainable palm oil has been a hot topic between Asean and the EU.
Both blocs agreed to establish a joint working group (JWG) to discuss sustainable vegetable oil following the strategic partnership upgrade late last year. The first round of JWG already took place in January.
View of collapsed coal ash impoundment and closed power plant in North Carolina that caused the 2014 Dan river coal ash spill. Photo: U.S. environmental protection agency/Wikimedia Commons
The Indonesian government has declared coal ash is no longer a hazardous waste product, despite containing heavy metals such as mercury, lead and arsenic, in a nod to industry efforts for greater deregulation.
Fly ash and bottom ash from the burning of coal in power plants or other industrial facilities are now deemed inert or non-hazardous waste, under a new government regulation issued February 2. The regulation is a derivative of the so-called omnibus law on job creation a controversial package of deregulation measures passed by parliament last October that activists warned would serve the interests of the mining and “dirty energy” industry.