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May 25, 2022 |
Palm Oil • Southeast Asia
In April 2022, the government of Indonesia introduced a new regulation to ban the export of palm oil. The regulation (Minister of Trade Regulation Number 22/2022) covered crude
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January 12, 2021 |
Palm Oil • Southeast Asia
In December 2020, Indonesia’s Minister of Energy and Resources, Arifin Tasrif, announced at a parliamentary hearing that the country’s target for biofuel production would
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October 14, 2020 |
Palm Oil • Southeast Asia
On October 5, 2020, the Indonesian House of Representatives and executive branch passed a controversial omnibus law. Intended to foster economic investment, the law has generated
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February 7, 2020 |
Palm Oil • Southeast Asia
Indonesia’s state-owned energy company Pertamina has ended an agreement with Italian Eni to build a refinery to turn palm oil into biodiesel. The end of the partnership, which
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January 24, 2020 |
Palm Oil • Southeast Asia
This month India began boycotting Malaysian palm oil, a move that could increase the country’s reliance on volumes from Indonesia. This development could lead to greater leakage
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August 2, 2019 |
Palm Oil • Southeast Asia
Indofood Sukses Makmur’s (Indofood) financial statements for 1H19 show that Citigroup, Standard Chartered and Rabobank no longer offer credit facilities to the company. Both
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March 13, 2019 |
Palm Oil • Southeast Asia
The withdrawal of Indofood from the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and the subsequent suspensions of its subsidiaries signal a possible expanding gap between the NDPE
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November 26, 2018 |
Palm Oil •
On 15 November 2018, the Roundtable for Responsible Palm Oil (RSPO) adopted a resolution that requires its members involved in primary procurement to publish their third-party
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November 9, 2018 |
Palm Oil • Southeast Asia
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has sanctioned Jakarta-based PT PP London Sumatra Indonesia Tbk (Lonsom), a subsidiary of Indofood Agri Resources (IndoAgri), for
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October 4, 2018 |
Palm Oil • Southeast Asia
Ten growers in Malaysia, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea have been responsible for almost 16,000 ha of deforestation in the first nine months of 2018, according to an analysis by