PALMOILMAGAZINE, JAKARTA — Few commodities in Indonesia are as paradoxical as palm oil. On one [Read More]
Category: OPINION
Assessing the Market Fate of Palm Oil from Disputed Lands
PALMOILMAGAZINE, JAKARTA — The government understandably hopes that palm oil harvested from seized plantations will [Read More]
Environmental Intelligence: Indonesia’s New Path to Sustainable Palm Oil
PALMOILMAGAZINE, JAKARTA – Indonesia closed 2025 with a painful ecological lesson. Flash floods and landslides [Read More]
Testing West Java’s Palm Oil Ban Against Indonesia’s Legal Hierarchy
PALMOILMAGAZINE, JAKARTA — The decision of the West Java Governor to issue a Circular Letter [Read More]
Prabowo’s Double Standards in Environmental and Extractive Industry Policies
PALMOILMAGAZINE, JAKARTA — Throughout 2025, land-based and natural resource industries have remained under intense scrutiny [Read More]
Measuring the Destructive Force of Sumatra’s Floods and the Long-Neglected Path of Mitigation
PALMOILMAGAZINE, BANDUNG – The massive floods that swept across parts of Sumatra struck with little [Read More]
Article 33, Palm Oil, and the Limits of State Power
PALMOILMAGAZINE, JAKARTA — Whenever debates flare over forest-area enforcement and the seizure of oil palm [Read More]
Palm Oil Amid Black Campaigns and Misguided Policies
PALMOILMAGAZINE, JAKARTA — The palm oil industry seems perpetually entangled in negative accusations. From deforestation [Read More]
Biodegradable Nursery Bags and the Ganoderma Debate: New Questions From Microplastic Research
PALMOILMAGAZINE, JAKARTA — At a recent national seminar for oil palm farmers in Kalimantan, my [Read More]
A Policy Breakthrough: Indonesia Shifts FPKMS from Land Constraints to Productivity Through Palm–Cattle Integration
PALMOILMAGAZINE, JAKARTA – The issuance of Circular Letter No. 1598/SE/KB.410/E/11/2025 by the Directorate General of [Read More]
