Media Biodiesel articles on B40: news, data and analysis on Indonesian biodiesel.
The number after the letter B is the biodiesel share of diesel. See B10 to B50, now mandatory at all fuel stations, the planned B60 for 2027, and talk of B70 to B100.
Every biodiesel blend increase is preceded by lab tests, road tests over tens of thousands of kilometres, cold-start trials and engine inspections. Here are the stages…
Indonesia's 2025 CPO output rose 7.26% to 51.66 million tonnes. Biodiesel used 12.704 million tonnes, about 51% of domestic demand, while year-end stocks fell to 2.068…
Indonesia says B40 cut 38.88 million tonnes of CO₂e in 2025. The climate benefit of palm biodiesel hinges on POME methane capture and where plantations were planted.
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…
Under B40, only 7.55 million kL of PSO biodiesel has its price gap covered by BPDP funds. Here is how the incentive is calculated from the HIP gap, where the money…
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.
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.
ESDM Decree 341.K/EK.01/MEM.E/2024 brings B40 into force from 1 January 2025. Of 15.6 million kL, only the 7.55 million kL PSO volume gets BPDPKS price-gap funding.
