Thursday, June 16, 2011

RSPO: Suspension of IOI Corp's certification still under deliberation

KUALA LUMPUR: The suspension of IOI Corp Bhd's certification process by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) due to a dispute with natives over a plot of land in Sarawak is still being deliberated.

'We are still going though the formal process of the grievance panel, we are analyzing the information we have collected,' RSPO secretary general Darrel Webber said on Thursday, June 16.

To recap, in early April, IOI Corp said there was a dispute with natives over PLANTATION [] land in Sarawak which was occupied by its 70% owned IOI Pelita Plantation Sdn Bhd.

'The RSPO is looked upon as a credible organisation and we have done it before, we have censured some companies people considered too big to fail but we do so in the spirit of making that things are changed on the ground,' said Webber.

RSPO was established to promote the growth and use of sustainable oil palm products through global standards and a stringent certification process.

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