News — news and analysis from Media Biodiesel, covering Indonesian biodiesel and renewable energy. Updated as new articles are published.
Treasury and the IRS released proposed 45Z rules on 3 February 2026: biofuel produced after 2025 earns the credit only if its feedstock comes from North America. The…
The first 2026 smallholder replanting (PSR) batch spans 11 provinces, led by Riau with 1,825.7 hectares. BPDP is aiming for 50,000 hectares this year.
ESDM Decree 439.K/EK.01/MEM.E/2025 sets the 2026 biodiesel allocation at 15.65 million kL: 7.45 million kL PSO and 8.19 million kL non-PSO, with 32 fuel companies and…
Oil World's Thomas Mielke said B50 needs at least 2.2 million tonnes more vegetable oil and could spark a global price spike, with Indonesian palm output seen falling…
Indonesia set the November 2025 CPO reference price at US$963.75/tonne, up US$0.14. Export duty is US$124/tonne and the levy US$96.37/tonne; the B50 plan helped support…
Pelita Air flew Jakarta–Bali on 20 August 2025 using SAF co-processed with used cooking oil at Pertamina's Cilacap refinery and certified under ISCC CORSIA.
Brazil's energy council (CNPE) approved raising the biodiesel blend from B14 to B15 and ethanol from 27.5% to 30%, effective 1 August 2025, after an earlier delay over…
PMK 30/2025 lifts the CPO export levy from 7.5% to 10% and the FAME biodiesel levy from 3% to 4.75% to shore up B40 funding through BPDP.
ESDM set the April 2025 biodiesel HIP at IDR 14,290 per litre excluding transport, up IDR 361 from March, as KPB palm oil prices rose and the rupiah weakened.
The European Commission imposed definitive anti-dumping duties of 10%–35.6% on Chinese biodiesel in February 2025. HVO is covered, while SAF is exempt but monitored under…
PMK 6/2025, effective 17 January 2025, turns BPDPKS into BPDP covering palm oil, cocoa and coconut. Replanting fund disbursements were briefly postponed during the…
From 8 January 2025, exports of used cooking oil, POME and HAPOR need an allocation agreed in a food coordination meeting, to protect cooking oil and B40 feedstock.
