oil palm industry
After slammed for its potential human rights violation against palm oil farmers, civil societies contested that the palm oil bill overlapping with existing constitution and laws.
Indonesian government rise up temperature on its heated relationships with European Union over palm oil for biofuel issue by calling for boycotts on several of European products.
Green groups blasted Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Maritime Issues, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan’s latest threat to pull from Paris Agreement as ‘reckless’ for overstepping presidential decree.
WALHI released the 2019 Outlook on environment issues in Indonesia, revealing increasing exploitation of natural resources especially from coal mining and oil palm plantation.
To increase oil palm competitiveness, Indonesia implement Indonesia Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) as minimum standard for the industry.