InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Crude palm oil (CPO) production in April 2024 reached 4.115 thousand tons or increased 0,32% from 4.102 thousand tons in March 2024. Palm kernel oil (PKO) production got escalated about 0,52% from 391 thousand tons in March 2024 to be 393 thousand tons in April 2024.

But the total consumption in Indonesia in April got decreased about -0,26 % to March 2024, from 1,898 thousand tons to be 1.893 thousand tons. April 2024 consumption for food sectors got escalated 4,28% to be 862 thousand tons from the previous that reached 827 thousand tons in March.

Oleo-chemical consumption got escalated a little bit to be 188 thousand tons from 187 thousand tons in March while biodiesel consumption in April got decreased 4,67% to be 842 thousand tons from 884 thousand tons in March.

In the exports, April 2024 exports got decreased 14,94 % or from 2.560 in March to be 2.178 thousand tons in April. “The decreasing exports in April happened in CPO (the biggest) that reached 46,7% or from 327 thousand tons in March to be 174 thousand tons,” Executive Director of Indonesian Palm Oil Association (IPOA), Mukti Sardjono said, as in the official statement to InfoSAWIT, Tuesday (25/6/2024).

The decreasing exports also happened in oleo-chemical that reached 17,05% or from 429 thousand tons in March to be 356 thousand tons in April; and CPO that reached 10,29 % or from 1.677 thousand tons in March to be 1.504 thousand tons.

The increasing exports in April happened in PKO that reached to be 6 thousand tons or from 0,2 thousand tons in March, in biodiesel to be 14 thousand tons from 5 thousand tons in March and PKO process to be 122 thousand tons from 121 thousand tons in March. 

“The April 2024 exports got decreased 9,64% to be US$ 1.968 million from US$ 2.178 million in March. It happened for the decreasing volume and price or US$ 1.042/ton to be US$ 1.039/ton at CIF Rotterdam,” Mukti said. (T2)