JAKARTA-The Indonesia Oil Palm Plantations Fund Management Agency (BPDPKS) encouraged oil palm smallholders to add more value to their product by establishing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in an effort to improve their standard of living.

The Secretariat of Council of Palm Oil Producing Countries (hereinafter ""Sec-CPOPC"") has sent an objection letter dated 4 August 2020 to Kraft Heinz Company for misguided negative campaign on palm oil. The letter was to respond the ""palm oil free"" claim and discriminatory messages on the Kraft\'s new hazelnut butter in Canada.

GENEVA-The World Trade Organization\'s (WTO) dispute settlement body (DSB) has agreed to Indonesia\'s second request to set up a panel examining the European Union\'s palm policies in biofuels.

JAKARTA- Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources has announced Biofuel Market Price Index (MPI), for bioethanol for period of August 2020 is set at 14,779 per liter, higher Rp1,020 per liter from MPI for July 2020 at Rp13,759.

JAKARTA-The Indonesia Oil Fund Plantations Management Agency (BPDPKS) reaffirmed its commitment to keep biodiesel at affordable price, seeing that BPDPKS is obliged to pay the negative price gap between diesel fuel and biodiesel and therefore people can afford the biodiesel.

JAKARTA-The government of Indonesia is planning to step up the use of palm oil in biodiesel by implementing biodiesel 40%, known as B40, by mid-next year.

BATANGHARI, JAMBI- The government of Indonesian province of Jambi is encouraging smallholders to replant their oil plant trees in an effort to boost local economic development.

JAKARTA-The Indonesian Oil Palm Plantations Fund Management Agency (BPDPKS) has collected Rp51 trillion in palm oil fund in 2015-2019. Around Rp47.28 trillion was collected from palm oil export levies and Rp3.7 trillion from fund management.

JAKARTA-In an effort to increase use of renewable energy, Japan continues to maximize use of biomass energy in its power plants. President Director of Jetro Jakarta, Keishi Suzuki said that Japan has planned to build biomass-based power plants.

JAKARTA-The Indonesia Oil Palm Plantations Fund Management Agency (BPDPKS) called on millenials in Indonesia to take part in responding challenges faced by palm oil industry.

JAKARTA-The government of Indonesia has been introducing oil palm replanting program for smallholder farmers (widely known as PSR) to improve productivity so that the quality of plantations can be increased without expansion planting area. In that case, allegations that link palm oil with the destruction of rainforests turn out to be false.

JAKARTA- Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources has announced Biofuel Market Price Index (MPI), for biodiesel for period of July 2020 and it goes into effect on 1 July 2020. Biodiesel MPI is set at Rp7,321 per liter while the cost of converting CPO into biodiesel is set at US$80 per metric ton.