REPLANTING oil palm trees under the Smallholders\' Oil Palm Plantation Replanting (PSR) scheme in Indonesia is not a difficult to carry out, since the government has made it easier, including to access funding resources.

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Professor of the Faculty of Forestry of Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), Yanto Santosa, reiterated his view that oil palm plantations are not the cause of deforestation in Indonesia since they were not derived from forest area. Yanto\'s statement came as he spoke at the International Green Week Berlin 2019 in Berlin, Germany (22/1/2019).

A world leader in peatlands management with Germany\'s University of Greifswald Hans Joosten praised Indonesia for peatlands restoration.

THE government is planning to enact Presidential Regulation (Perpres) in trying to strengthen implementation of the Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO).

The Indonesian Oil Palm Estate Fund (BPDPKS) reiterated its view that smallholders\' oil palm replanting program (PSR) is the solution to improve plantation productivity and the livelihood of smallholders.

PRESIDENT Director of the Indonesian Oil Palm Estate Fund (BPDPKS) Dono Boestami shared Indonesia\'s experience in developing palm oil sectors and its contribution in achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the climate change conference COP24. "Of 17 goals of SGDs, there are at least six or seven goals palm oil sector can achieve," Dono said as he delivered presentation at a The Contribution of Good Agricultural Practices to SDGs-themed session in Indonesia Pavilion, Friday (7/12/2018). COP24 is the informal name for the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that has been held in Katowice, Poland from 3 to 14 December 2018.

Participants of Regular Oil Palm Course 2018 from 11 countries visited smallholder-owned oil palm plantation in Jambi to get a valuable personal view of sustainable palm oil industry in Indonesia from farmers\' perspective. Plantation they visited on Sunday (25/11/2018), was a smallholder-owned plantation in Pulau Pauh Village, Renah Mendaluh sub-district, Tanjung Jabung Barat Regency, Province of Jambi.

PRESIDENT Director of the Indonesian Oil Palm Estate Fund (BPDPKS) Dono Boestami has once again said to international community that Indonesian palm oil industry is a key feature of the country\'s economy given the fact that it supports the livelihood of 20 percent of Indonesia population. He said, more than 20 million people make a living from palm oil sector in Indonesia.

Aptly themed "A Renewed Commitment to Achieving Market Transformation", the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) concluded its 16th Annual Roundtable Conference on Sustainable Palm Oil (RT16) and 15th Annual General Assembly (GA15) today, with a newly ratified and adopted certification standard aimed to universally strengthen social development, environmental protection, and economic prosperity across the sustainable palm oil value chain. Marking a pivotal time for RSPO and its more than 4,000 global members, the three-day RT16 conference was framed around the key elements of the recent RSPO Principles and Criteria (P&C) review: Halting deforestation, protecting peatlands, and strengthening human and labour rights.