Indonesia set to resume palm oil exports but policy uncertainty persists

Workers load palm oil seeds onto a truck at the Namorambe plantation in Deli Serdang, North Sumatra. - AFP

JAKARTA: Indonesia is due to resume exports of palm oil on Monday after a ban of more than three weeks, but industry traders and companies were awaiting details on accompanying rules to secure domestic supplies of the edible oil to control cooking oil prices.

The Southeast Asian country, the world's biggest palm oil producer, halted exports of palm oil from April 28 in an attempt to bring down soaring local prices of cooking oil, rattling global edible oil markets already struggling with sunflower oil supply shortages due to the war in Ukraine.