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FIGHTING FOR ECOLOGICAL JUSTICE

FIGHTING FOR ECOLOGICAL JUSTICE

Fighting for ecological justice

The Urgency of Extending Palm Oil Moratorium to Accelerate Indonesia’s Palm Oil Governance Reform

It is undeniable that the palm oil industry plays a strategic role in the national economy. In 2020, Statistics Indonesia recorded that volume of palm oil product exported reached 34 million tonnes. In addition, the industry also provides jobs and livelihoods for millions of smallholder families. However, it needs to be understood that the various challenges faced by the industry is, among others, low levels of prosperity among smallholders, the numerous underdeveloped villages around plantations, the gap between central and local incomes, low tax payment, to ecological problems and the rampant social conflicts, which in turn reduces palm oil product competitiveness in global markets.

One of the currently available instruments to untangle the problems of palm oil governance is Presidential Instruction No. 8 of 2018 on Moratorium on and Evaluation of the Licensing of Palm Oil Plantations and Productivity Increases for Palm Oil Plantations. Nevertheless, this moratorium ends on September 2021. The policy is conceptually strategic, but not yet optimally implemented and therefore the policy needs to be extended to resolve and accelerate Indonesia’s palm oil governance reform for the future…Read more see on the attached documentsee attached document

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