Europe's Attitude to Palm Oil Is Funny

For more than four decades, various negative issues have continued to be raised against palm oil and its derivatives.

Not only were they accused of destroying the environment and not good for health, the national palm oil industry was also accused of destroying many orangutans. "Indeed there is an orangutan who died, but only one, and that was not done by the oil palm plantation industry," said the Indonesian Ambassador to Germany, Arif Havas Oegroseno. comprehensively. "They don't see that we currently have a palm oil moratorium for years. During the time of President SBY, there was also a moratorium. They really don't want to see that we have made a lot of improvements in the national palm oil industry," said Arif. In line with this, Deputy Chairman III of Gapki, Togar Sitanggang, actually said, "Europe doesn't want fresh things from Indonesia. They just want used ones." Togar explained that Europe continues to slander palm oil from Indonesia and plans to prevent crude palm oil (CPO) from being used as biodiesel raw material for the transportation industry in Europe. Efforts to ban the use of Indonesian CPO in biodiesel production in Europe are planned to start in 2030 through the Renewable Energy Directive (RED II). RED II classifies palm oil in the category of high-risk Indirect Land Use Change (ILUC). As a result, palm oil is seen as contributing to deforestation and climate change.

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