Indonesia is doubling its 2028 bioethanol-blending target to 20%, accelerating a push under President Prabowo Subianto to reduce reliance on fuel imports.

Malaysian palm oil exports likely fell last month on weaker-than-usual festival demand in major buyer India.

Indonesia’s palm oil production may shrink by up to 3 million tons next year due to the severe El Niño weather forecast for the coming months, according to an industry estimate, adding to upward pressure on prices.

The state-backed company set up to oversee Indonesia’s vast commodity industry said it aimed to strengthen oversight of export flows, including a plan to track ships serving the world’s largest archipelago.

Indonesia’s ambition to launch a new commodities exchange by Jan. 1 is achievable if it uses existing platforms rather than starting from scratch, according to the deputy chief of the Jakarta Futures Exchange.

Palm oil climbed to its highest level in about 20 months, as rising biofuel demand and mounting production risks from the strengthening El Niño underpin prices.

Major crop buyers across Asia are turning to alternative suppliers as attacks escalate in the Black Sea, crimping exports from the breadbasket region at a vital point in the season.

Once the world’s third-largest cocoa producer, Indonesia is seeking to revive cocoa production after years of underinvestment, aging trees and pests left the industry short of beans and increasingly dependent on imports.

The rollout of a pioneering palm-diesel blend is set to stretch Indonesian biofuel makers to their limits and tighten global supplies of the tropical oil by diverting it away from export markets.

Palm oil advanced on rising Malaysian exports and expectations of better demand from the biggest buyer India as festival season nears.

Indonesia’s agriculture minister has asked police to investigate hundreds of palm oil companies that failed to pay farmers more as prices recovered from a slump driven by the country’s new export policy.

Indonesia unveiled a much-anticipated list of commodities subject to its new export regime, showing the rules will capture most of its major palm oil products in addition to coal and ferronickel.

Lingering uncertainty around Indonesia’s commodity export rules means traders are holding up some shipments just as radical changes come into effect, adding to strains on Southeast Asia’s largest economy.

Lingering uncertainty around Indonesia’s commodity export rules means traders are holding up some shipments just as radical changes come into effect, adding to strains on Southeast Asia’s largest economy.

Indonesian palm oil prices tumbled after President Prabowo Subianto unveiled plans to impose state control over exports of several key commodities, including the edible oil.

Four trucks and a passenger bus have just completed a 40,000-kilometer (25,000-mile) road trip around Java. The epic journey — a distance equivalent to a circumnavigation of the globe — will help to determine whether Indonesia can deliver one of the world’s most ambitious biofuel-blending mandates in the next few months.

The country's complimentary food program has rapidly become one of the largest of its kind, but there’s little sign yet it will be an economic gamechanger.

Thousands of tiny bugs from Africa have been released at an Indonesian palm oil plantation in North Sumatra as the world’s biggest grower seeks to revive output growth after years of stalling production.

Indonesia’s abrupt pivot to expand its biodiesel mandate is the latest sign of how the war in Iran is reshaping energy policy, tightening global vegetable oil supplies as more gets funneled into fuel.

The number of fire hotspots across Indonesia and Malaysia is at the highest in seven years, raising the risk of severe haze conditions across the region in the coming months.