Workers transfer harvested palm fruits to a transport truck before being processing into crude palm oil at a palm plantation in Pekanbaru on April 23, 2022. - AFP
JAKARTA: Indonesia widened the scope of its export ban on raw materials for cooking oil to include crude and refined palm oil, its chief economic minister said on Wednesday, leaving markets in shock over the latest policy reversal.
The announcement flipped the minister's statement a day earlier, in which he had said the export ban would only cover refined, bleached, and deodorized palm olein.
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