Malaysia is apparently making further headway in the slick business of crude palm oil (CPO). Last year, one of its companies, Perkumpulan Guthrie Berhad, took Indonesian business circles by surprise when it bought 25 plantation firms of Indoplantation, previously owned by the Salim Group, from the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (IBRA). This purchase of oil palm plantations remains controversial. The cancellation of this transaction, as indi