Ban of Indonesia’s Palm Oil Products to the European Union and Indonesia’s Diplomacy Efforts
Keywords:
economic security, environment, nation branding, trade wars, European UnionAbstract
The European Union (EU) has officially banned palm oil products as a biofuel material for its members gradually for environmental damage issues. This policy threatens the palm oil commodity and in turn it has a negative effect on Indonesia's economic security. The Indonesian side has carried out various resistances from diplomacy efforts, lawsuits to the World Trade Organization (WTO) to implementing export restriction policies. This study aims to analyze Indonesia's trade dispute with the European Union and its impact on Indonesia’s palm oil products by using the concepts of public diplomacy and nation branding, economic security, and trade wars. The study used primary data in the form of expert interviews and it got support from secondary data in a kind of literature studies. It was processed with qualitative descriptive method. The study results show that the restrictions on nickel exports that Indonesia has implemented after the RED II prevails and the provisions in the RED II makes Indonesia’s palm oil products difficult indicate a trade dispute between the two parties. The ban of the European Union to the palm oil also not purely bases on environmental motivations but rather to increase the demand for the EU's local vegetable oil market.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Terms and conditions of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License apply to all published manuscripts. This Journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This licence allows authors to use all articles, data sets, graphics and appendices in data mining applications, search engines, web sites, blogs and other platforms by providing appropriate reference. The journal allows the author(s) to hold the copyright without restrictions and will retain publishing rights without restrictions.
A competing interest exists when professional judgment concerning the validity of research is influenced by a secondary interest, such as financial gain. We require that our authors reveal all possible conflicts of interest in their submitted manuscripts.
The Editor reserves the right to shorten and adjust texts. Significant changes in the text will be agreed with the Authors.