# How to nurture the growth of Indonesian biodiesel - Landscape Alliance Forests News

> A CIFOR and Bogor Agricultural University working paper finds Indonesia's palm-oil biodiesel output is still low due to policy and technical obstacles. Interviews with officials and businesses identified policies that do not support one another and a lack of subnational government role.

- Date: 2018-09-25 · published 2018-09-25T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: report · region Indonesia · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/62897-how-to-nurture-the-growth-of-indonesian-biodiesel-landscape-alliance-forests
- Commodities: [Palm Oil](https://feedsoft.ai/c/PALMOIL.md)

## Why it matters

Slow biodiesel development limits domestic palm oil absorption, so the policy bottlenecks are a modest bearish-leaning factor for palm prices if they persist.

## Read by commodity

- PALMOIL: neutral

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## Sources

- forestsnews.org: https://www.forestsnews.org/57938/how-to-nurture-the-growth-of-indonesian-biodiesel

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