Indonesia: West Kalimantan regional government ensures no farmers sell fresh fruit bunches (FFB) to Malaysia

TABLOIDSINARTANI.COM, Pontianak---The low price of fresh fruit bunches (FFB) makes farmers/planters nervous. In order to get around this, there are allegations that planters in the West Kalimantan region sell FFB to Malaysia. However, the Head of the Plantation and Livestock Service Office of West Kalimantan Province, Muhammad Munsif, emphasized that in the palm oil center area on the border between West Kalimantan and Malaysia, until now there has been no sale of FFB to Malaysian Palm Oil Mills (PKS). "The purpose of the sale is that trucks with a tonnage of tens of tons of FFB pass through the border post to Malaysia," he said. Munsif has even collected information from the head of the plantation office in the district directly adjacent to Malaysia. Then, the Head of Agricultural Quarantine at the Entikong border who also oversees the agricultural quarantine posts of Arut, Badau and Sintang. "We also collect information from the border security task force who is on guard at the ...