Indonesia, Malaysia Agree to Fight ‘Discrimination’ Against Palm Oil

Indonesia and Malaysia, the world’s biggest producers of palm oil, agreed on Monday to work together to fight “discrimination” against the commodity after a meeting between leaders from the countries.

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Indonesia and Malaysia, the world’s biggest producers of palm oil, agreed on Monday to work together to fight “discrimination” against the commodity after a meeting between leaders from the countries. The comments by Indonesian President Joko Widodo followed a meeting with Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim. During their bilateral meeting, Anwar and Widodo signed eight memorandums of understandings covering shipping, export-import financing, green energy, the development of battery industry, which they said would deepen cross border trade and investment.

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