by Bhimanto Suwastoyo | 3 May 2019 | News
In marking the 2019 May Day, the Oil Palm Labor Coalition (KBS) is calling for better and more effective government protection for them. The coalition is calling on the government to provide this protection through the issuance of special regulations governing the...
by Bhimanto Suwastoyo | 2 May 2019 | News
The Indonesian province of South Kalimantan, an island annually plagued by forest and ground fires in the dry season, is preparing its fire-fighting troops as the rainy season approaches its end. The South Kalimantan Chapter of the Indonesian Palm Oil Producer...
by Bhimanto Suwastoyo | 26 April 2019 | News
A number of stakeholders have set up a Center of Excellence (CoE) for the Sustainable Palm Oil Initiative Program in the Indonesian province of Riau to help smallholders, both from plasma schemes and independent ones, to manage their oil palm plantations sustainably,...
by Bhimanto Suwastoyo | 5 April 2019 | News
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Netflix and Silverback Films on Friday (5/4) launched an eight-part “Our Planet” TV series globally, showing the beauty of Earth but also the damage we are inflicting on the planet and the role we must play to assure how...
by Bhimanto Suwastoyo | 4 April 2019 | Featured, News
Considering the importance of palm oil for the Indonesian economy and also its significant role in fighting against poverty, the country should consider having a specific institution to manage the sector at the national scale, a number of practitioners and observers...
by Dewi Kurniawati | 2 April 2019 | Featured, News
Senior Indonesian officials are voicing strong reactions, including threats of retaliation, to the plan by the European Union to impose its Renewable Energy Directive II (RED II) that will ban palm oil-based biodiesel from its transportation sector arguing that it was...
