COMMENT | The other side of palm oil

COMMENT | “There is something bad in everything good, and something good in everything bad,” as Michael Lewis put it. How many of you agree with this quote? Personally, I find that nothing is entirely right or wrong, good or bad in life, it all depends upon our perception.

When it comes to oil palm, environmental NGOs often blame it for deforestation, including when orangutans are forcefully expelled from their homes when forests are converted to oil palm plantations.

Thanks to Indonesia, oil palm is also commonly linked to haze-causing illegal peat and forest fires. In fact, the Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) sector is identified as a “source”, rather than a sink for Indonesia.