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    • Indonesia to lift ban on palm oil exports May 23 

    By on May 19, 2022

    Jakarta : Indonesia will lift its ban on palm oil exports starting from Monday, President Joao Widodo said Thursday, relieving pressure on the global vegetable oil market after price spied because of the suspension and the war in Ukraine. The archipelago nation issued the ban last month to secure supplies of the commodity, used in a range of goods from chocolate spreads to cosmetics, in the face of a domestic shoratge. “Based on the supply..of cooking oil and considering there are 17 million people in the palm oil industry-farmers and other supporting workers-I decided that cooking oil export will reopen on Monday, May 23, 2022,” Widodo told an online briefing.

    “The government will still be monitoring everything strictly to ensure the demand will be met with affordable prices.” he said. Authorities had rigorously enforced the export ban, with the Indonesia navy seizing a tanker carrying palm oil out of the country in violation of the order earlier this month. After the ban came into force, Widodo said supplying the country’s 270 million people was the “highest priority” of his government, ere are you But Jakarta came under pressure for further saddling prices that were already skyrocketing after Russia’s invasion of agricultural powerhouse Ukraine. Palm oil producers staged protects last week in the centre of Jakarta and several towns in Indonesia complaining that the prices for palm oil fruits had dropped dramatically. 

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