by Denys Collin Munang | 17 June 2019 | Opinion
Indonesia’s announcement that it plans to make permanent a moratorium on new forest clearing for oil palm plantations or logging, already repeatedly extended since 2011, is a bold move that will allow the industry to focus on boosting productivity but also diffuse a...
by For Free Choice | 17 June 2019 | Featured, Opinion
ForFreeChoice, an Italy-based think-tank is calling on the European Parliament and Commission to step in and protect its citizens from misleading claims by companies that says “Free from Palm Oil” products guaranteed customers healthier food and less...
by Contributor | 28 May 2019 | Opinion
*By Ir. Achmad Mangga Barani, M.M. – Dr. Ermanto Fahamsyah, S.H., M.H. from The Forum for the Development of Sustainable Strategic plantations/ FP2SB. Plans to come out with a draft bill on palm oil has been there since 2015, and in 2016, when this became part...
by Bhimanto Suwastoyo | 26 April 2019 | Featured, Opinion
Environmentalists and lately the European Commission have been relentless in attacking the palm oil industry in Indonesia for its alleged lack of sustainability – which covers a glossary of wrongs such as deforestation, planting on peat, exploitation of labor,...
by Denys Collin Munang | 27 March 2019 | Featured, Opinion
Much has been said about the “Impending Palm Oil Ban by the EU” and it is disheartening for me to see the way this whole episode has morphed into something bigger than it really is. First of all, I see much confusion about what the issue really is. The crux of the...
by Bhimanto Suwastoyo | 4 March 2019 | Opinion
In the wake of a series of boycott against palm oil by a number of European retailer and mounting restriction against the commodity as a biofuel in the European Union, For Free Choice Institute, an Italy-based platform that defends individual freedom of choice and...
