Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto said on March 30 during an official visit to Japan that the Southeast Asian country will go ahead this year with its B50 palm oil-based biodiesel programme.
"We are going in a big way to biofuel," he said at a business forum ahead of his meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.
"We will produce this year diesel oil from palm oil and now we are increasing from 40% to 50%."
In January, authorities scrapped a plan to launch B50 - a blend of 50% palm oil-based biodiesel and 50% conventional diesel - this year due to technical and funding concerns, instead sticking with the B40 blend.
