Indonesia, Malaysia to fight EU palm oil ‘discrimination’
Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim with Indonesian President Joko Widodo in Putrajaya today. – Facebook pic, June 8, 2023.
INDONESIAN President Joko Widodo today called for stronger collaboration with Malaysia to protect palm oil products threatened by a European Union trade law he termed “discrimination”. The European Parliament adopted the new legislation in April that will ban imports deemed to be driving deforestation, throwing the bloc’s trade muscle behind a global fight against climate change.
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