Rabu 11 Apr 2018 20:00 WIB

Indonesia, Ghana unite against negative campaign on palm oil

Indonesia and Ghana are among the countries that produce palm oil.

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Palm oil plantation. (Illustration)
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Palm oil plantation. (Illustration)

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, NUSA DUA -- The governments of Indonesia and Ghana have agreed to cooperate against the negative campaign on palm oil commodity. Minister of Foreign Affairs Retno Marsudi said she has met Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food of Ghana Kennedy Osei Nyarko to about a lot of negative campaigns against oil palm. 

"The palm oil-producing countries should unite against the negative campaigns," Marsudi stated here on Wednesday.

She met Nyarko at the bilateral meeting that was held on the sidelines of the Indonesia-Africa Forum (IAF) at Nusa Dua Bali Convention Center.

Indonesia and Ghana discussed extensively about the palm oil industry as they are among the countries that produce the commodity.