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  • What is Indonesia sustainable palm oil (ISPO)?
  • Indonesia is proposing to form its own Indonesia Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) to legislate and make it mandatory for all the oil palm plantations to be sustainable in their operation. Major plantation players such as Sime Darby and United Plantations continue to lead the CSPO production in Malaysia.
  • How much palm kernel oil is produced in Indonesia?
  • A total of 3.9 million tonnes of palm kernel oil (PKO) was produced during the same corresponding period. In the case of Indonesia, the industry has grown rapidly with the oil palm plantation expanding at an annual rate of more than 12% from 1990 to 2005.
  • What is the labourer to land ratio in Indonesian oil palm production?
  • 6 The labourer to land ratio in Indonesian oil palm production in 2002 may be estimated as 1:3, giving 1.1 million workers for the 3.2 million planted hectares of oil palm. There are 100 000 additional workers engaged in processing and downstream activities (Private communications, 2002), bringing the total workforce to 1.2 million.
  • Which country produces the most palm oil in the world?
  • A short history of palm oil in Indonesia: A ‘success story’Within the span of only a few decades, Indonesia has become the world’s forem st producer of CPO (crude palm oil), overtaking Malaysia in 2007. With a production of 23.9 Mt in 2011, Indonesia accounts for 49.7% of world production (Oilworld 2011), followed by Malaysia (37.8%), Thai
  • Why do Indonesian oil palms need security?
  • The need for security raises production costs by some US$ 5/t within the overheads of Table 1. Indonesian oil palm expanded rapidly from the early 1970s, reaching 3.2 million hectares in 2000 and featuring large extensions of private estates and smallholdings (Table 1).
  • Should Indonesia become the world's leading oil palm producer?
  • Given such help, the industry should renew its expansion and become the world s leading oil palm producer. Oil palm in Indonesia grew fast over the closing decades of the twentieth century, becoming a prime component of the Indo-nesian and global oils and fats scenes.