Regulations mandating the use of palm oil in diesel fuel could help ease Indonesia’s dependence on energy imports and stabilise the local currency, while improving prospects for local palm oil producers. In late August President Joko Widodo ratified a regulation mandating the compulsory use of 20 per cent blended biodiesel (B20), which uses palm oil […]

JAKARTA, Oct 6 (Reuters) – Indonesia conducted its first test flight using jet fuel partially from palm oil on Wednesday, a senior minister said, as the country plans to commercialise the fuel as it seeks creative ways to use the edible oil domestically.

JAKARTA: Indonesia’s energy ministry plans to begin road tests for a biodiesel programme using 40% palm based bio-content (B40) in February, a senior government official said on Monday.    

JAKARTA, Dec 10 (Reuters) – Indonesia plans to implement a biodiesel programme with 40% bio-content (B40) between 2021-2022, coordinating minister overseeing energy Luhut Pandjaitan said on Tuesday.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Indonesia has enforced mandatory use of diesel containing 20 percent locally produced biofuel amid steps to rein in its fuel bill and cushion the impact on its economy of a currency crisis and higher oil prices, a government official told Reuters. Speaking on the sidelines of the Singapore International Energy Week conference, […]

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia on Monday launched biodiesel containing 30% palm-based fuel, the highest mandatory mix in the world, in a bid to slash its fuel import bill and boost domestic palm oil consumption.

JAKARTA/ SINGAPORE, Dec 2 (Reuters) – Indonesia must make policy changes to ensure it can keep subsidising its ambitious biodiesel program, the head of a government agency in charge of collecting and managing palm oil export levies, told a virtual conference on Wednesday.

JAKARTA: Indonesia may further increase palm oil export levies in future to support its ambitious biodiesel programme as the price of crude oil is expected to remain weak next year, a senior Finance Ministry official said on Wednesday. Indonesia collects levies from palm oil exports to fund the cost difference between fuel made from palm oil and fossil […]

JAKARTA: Indonesia‘s energy ministry plans to start road tests for a biodiesel programme with 40 per cent bio-content (B40) in April, a government official said on Thursday. Indonesia, the world’s largest palm oil producer, last year had increased the mandatory bio-content of its biodiesel programme to 30 per cent, known as B30, which is expected to cut the […]

Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Ignasius Jonan says the government is giving state-owned electricity company PLN two years to fuel all diesel power plants in the country with biodiesel made from crude palm oil (CPO). Speaking before hundreds of students and other Indonesians living in Japan, Jonan said in Tokyo on Sunday that PLN was […]