Indonesia Urges Malaysia To Join Fight vs Palm Oil Discrimination

Indonesian President Joko Widodo has called for better collaboration with neighboring Malaysia to fight what he called "discrimination" against their countries' palm oil products, Rozanna Latiff and Ananda Teresia reported for Reuters.

Photo Insert: Indonesia and Malaysia are the world's top two producers and exporters of palm oil, a commodity used in everything from lipstick to pizza.

Indonesia and Malaysia are the world's top two producers and exporters of palm oil, a commodity used in everything from lipstick to pizza.

"We need to strengthen this collaboration. We don't want commodities produced by Malaysia and Indonesia to be discriminated against in other countries," Jokowi, as the Indonesian president is known, said in a press conference in Kuala Lumpur after meeting with Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.

His comments come after the European Union (EU) passed a law this year banning imports of commodities linked to deforestation, a move that is expected to hurt exports of palm oil to the bloc.

Malaysia has called the law "unjust" and has said it is working with Indonesia to consider an appropriate response to the law.

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