Malaysia and Indonesia to continue collaboration to counter palm oil criticism

BANGI (Jan 31): Malaysia will continue to collaborate with Indonesia to counter the European Union’s (EU) criticism against palm oil, said Deputy Prime Minister and Plantation and Commodities Minister Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof. He said Malaysia and Indonesia will talk about the laws which ban the sale of palm oil and other commodities linked to deforestation unless importers can demonstrate that their production of goods does not involve deforestation. “The collaboration strategy with Indonesia to counter the anti-palm oil campaign is seen to be able to put pressure on the EU. "The Council of Palm Oil Producing Countries will also formulate a strategy to put pressure on the EU, so that Malaysia and Indonesia are not bullied,” he said. Speaking at the Malaysian Palm Oil Board's (MPOB) Excellence Awards ceremony 2022 here on Tuesday (Jan 31), Fadillah noted that palm oil producing countries must agree on how to handle global issues, so that objections to palm oil discrimination can ...