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Evolving international sustainability norms demand greater environmental and social responsibility from business across global commodity chains – from countries of origin to countries of consumption. Conventional commandand-control regulation has had limited success in addressing negative environmental and social impacts. As a result, advocacy groups and NGOs have championed a diversity of market-based and multi-stakeholder governance approaches aimed at shifting the private sector towards delivering more sustainable business models. Multiple non-state, market-driven social and environmental standards have emerged for palm oil. Through interviews with growers and key stakeholders in the Indonesian palm oil industry this occasional paper explores the motivations driving the uptake of sustainability standards, as well as the factors supporting and preventing implementation of sustainability standards, and asks, what model of “sustainable” oil palm agriculture is ultimately being built?
The palm oil sector has been targeted by NGOs for its alleged negative environmental and social impacts. In this regard Indonesia represents a major challenge because it is home to some of the largest tropical forests in the world. A recent wave of corporate sustainability commitments peaked with the New York Declaration on Forests in September 2014, which emerged amidst the development of other standards and initiatives toward sustainable palm oil production. This process has made this field very complex, especially in Indonesia. The present study aims at clarifying the positions taken by the various stakeholders and assesses the level of political support and the functioning of policy networks. Results from our Policy Network Analysis based on the survey of 59 institutions representing all types of stakeholders (e.g. government, corporate, NGO) at all levels (international, Indonesian and local) show that standards and initiatives for sustainability have contrasting visibility and impact among stakeholders. In this context, RSPO stands as a reference, with the efforts by the Government of Indonesia to promote its own standard with ISPO yet to gain traction. While IPOP was a well-appreciated initiative and a symbol of zero-deforestation commitments, opposition to it by the government and conflicting interests have resulted in its disbandment. Overall, the lack of progress for sustainable palm oil practices on the ground, in the view of respondents, seems to be caused by political and legal barriers rather than technical challenges or economic losses at a country level.
Palm oil development in Indonesia has brought positive impact to the Indonesian national development such as improving livelihood and poverty alleviation. However, this sector has also raised concern of its socio-environmental negative effect. In response to the unsustainable practice of palm oil plantation, several NGOs, palm oil companies and investors established the Roundtable Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in 2004. This organization introduced a voluntary Certified Sustainable Palm Oil (CSPO) brand through a series of auditing processes of sustainable principle and criteria application in palm oil industry. Based on that backdrop, this study examines how RSPO as private governance emerged, particularly in the Indonesian context. It also provides the explanation about RSPO characteristics as well as the advantages and its limitations. In addition. this study addresses how the Indonesian government relates to RSPO. The methodology of this study is qualitative which is based on secondary sources of data. It uses information such as from public and private reports as well as other sources of information including report from civil society organizations that involve in environmental and social issues within the palm oil sector. This study also examines the findings from several journals and articles that have focus in palm oil and private governance topics. The findings of this dissertation suggest that there are three explanations with regard to the RSPO emergence. First, it has been driven by governments low performance in handling issues concerning social and environmental impacts of palm oil industry in Indonesia. Second, the controversy about palm oil commodity advantage and disadvantage at international level has also stimulated RSPO establishment. Finally, the RSPO is enhanced by the cooperation between transnational corporations and NGO certification initiative. In terms of its advantages, RSPO brings a positive image for palm oil companies. However, RSPO also has several limitations. First, the RSPO has lack of accountability. Second, the RSPO is a costly mechanism. Third, RSPO has lack of legitimacy from the national stakeholder such as the Indonesian government and palm oil companies association. This dissertation also identifies that initially the Indonesian government perceived that RSPO certification as an ordinary business process that would not bring impact to economic development in Indonesia. However, the next dynamic showed that RSPO has failed to gain support from the national stakeholders such as the Indonesian government and Indonesian palm oil companies association. This challenge, among other things, has been caused by the exclusion of these national actors from the decision making process. In the next phase, The Indonesian government has responded to the emergence of RSPO by establishing its own certification i.e. ISPO (Indonesia Sustainable Palm Oil). It can be concluded that the establishment of ISPO has strengthened the Indonesian government position in regulations of palm oil sector and competed the authority of RSPO.
One issue that is widely discussed in various scientific forums in the world, both in Indonesia, Malaysia, Europe and the United States is palm oil. These commodities expanded rapidly and became one of the world's major source of vegetable oil, and managed to beat the dominance of soybean oil. This book presents information and data about the Indonesia's palm oil industry. Contents 1. Introduction: Sustainability as a Concept in Economic Thought and Policy in Indonesia 2. Methodology 3. Sustainability: Flexibility and the Role of Government 4. General Facts on Indonesia 5. History of the Palm Oil Industry in Indonesia 6. Eco-Physiology and Advantage of Oil Palm 7. Supply Chain in Palm Oil Industry in Indonesia 8. Government Policy 9. Conclusion
The palm oil sector in Indonesia has seen the adoption of zero deforestation commitments by the larger companies in the form of various pledges around No Deforestation, No Peat, and No Exploitation (NDPE). At the same time, at the national and sub-nationa
The overarching goal of writing this book is simple: write an easy-to-read, accessible, text on palm oil, using easily understandable language without losing sight of the essentials. The structure of the book fulfills that objective to the letter. If you have keen interest in vegetable oil dynamics, palm oil being the most important to Indonesian economy, this is surely a must-read for you and perhaps your students (academics) and colleagues (practitioners in commodity trading, regulators). For students of estate crops, the comprehensive treatment of the most important vegetable crop in Indonesia, makes this book an invaluable possession. While for economic historians, the book is an all-in, saving you time and bucks to all around for a three or so texts to both whet and fill your appetite. And for those international trade enthusiasts, adding this book to your collections, is more than worth the cost you pay for it at the store. The list is not exhaustive to save space but other include policy makers, anthropologists, agronomists, political economists, and Oilseeds consultants, teachers and students of plantation agriculture, NGOs working on the relationship between estates crop farming and societal well-being, and policy makers at the national and sub national government level, and international development agencies.The book begins with a general outlook on oil palm and palm oil products, and the contribution of the palm oil industry to the Indonesian economy, following by chapter two that hammers down on the relevancy of palm oil to Indonesian economy. Chapter Three tackles the political economy background , which to a large extent has shaped the dynamics on public policy and socio-economy and to a certain extent politics that relates to palm oil development. Chapter four tackles the supply dynamics and development that influence CPO. Meanwhile, Chapter five presents a detailed account of drivers and determinants of palm oil of demand in general and Indonesia domestic economy in particular, which is followed by Chapter Six that dives into the dynamics and developments of the Indonesian palm oil market. Meanwhile, Chapter Seven takes a look at the opportunities and challenges of Indonesian palm oil market, while Chapter Eight tackles Indonesian palm oil trade, and underscores the impact that the globalization wave has had on CPO industry, emphasis being placed on WTO protocols and how they apply to CPO trade. The importance of China and India to Indonesia's CPO exports induces a discussion on the prospects and potential problems surrounding CPO trade. Chapter Nine delves into the palm oil -climate change nexus, highlighting the issues at stake, and policy initiatives that can make palm oil sector environment friendly and sustainable. Chapter Ten discusses palm oil and food security nexus, connecting the links between oil palm production, forest degradation, poverty aggravation, and worsening food insecurity. Chapter Eleven tackles the role of smallholder growers in palm oil production focusing on opportunities and challenges they face and how to mitigate and where possible alleviate them. Chapter Twelve looks at renewable energy developments in general and the increasing role that biodiesel is playing in particular. Chapter Thirteen, looks at the prospects, obstacles, and recommended future course of action that are considered favorable for creating sustainable palm oil sector in Indonesia, setting the stage for the last chapter , Chapter Fourteen , which navigates palm oil value added enhancement and production expansion debate.
Key messages Different types of interactions are emerging involving public and private (non-state) actors across sustainability initiatives in the palm oil sector in Indonesia.Such initiatives include the development of gover