Indonesia: Farmers ask China to buy more Indonesian palm oil

Reporter: Noverius Laoli | Editor: Noverius Laoli KONTAN.CO.ID - JAKARTA. Oil palm smallholders do not remain silent with a variety of environmental regulations such as EUDR and others. Like a team, oil palm smallholders take on the role of international trade diplomacy, just like what oil palm growers did in China, having previously been to Italy, Switzerland, Madrid, the Netherlands and Pakistan. This time in China, palm oil farmers directly asked China to prioritize palm oil and buy it more. Relations between Indonesia and China for 73 years are not ordinary trade relations, but relations as friends and family. Therefore, the smallholders are grateful that so far China has been the largest buyer of Indonesian palm oil and the smallholders have been greatly helped by this trade relationship, because 42% of the upstream sector of the palm oil industry is managed by Indonesian smallholders. This was confirmed by the Indonesian Palm Oil Growers Association (Apkasindo) represented ...