Irregular Regulation
President Jokowi has issued a regulation on the sustainable management of the oil palm industry. Ironically, it does not include critical elements such as enforcement of human rights or traceable supply chain.
Tempo
May 12, 2020
SOW rice but reap weeds. This old Indonesian saying is appropriate to describe Presidential Regulation No. 44/2020 on the certification system for sustainable Indonesian oil palm plantations.
This regulation should make people happy because it raises the level of the oil palm industry from being regulated by the ministry of agriculture to being a matter for the president. But it seems that this promotion is simply a sweetener at a time of onslaug
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