Palm Moratorium Prevents Over-Supplying, Which Now Occurs: http://www.tribunnews.com/nasional/2018/11/29/moratorium-sawit-cegah-over-suppy-yang-saat-ini-terjadi/29 November 2018
The Palm Oil Farmers Union (SPKS) looks at the instructions of the President of the Republic of Indonesia Number 8/2018 concerning Delays and Evaluation of Licensing of Oil Palm Plantations and Increasing Productivity of Oil Palm Plantations to be a positive entry point that can provide real benefits to farmers. This Presidential Instruction provides an opportunity for independent self-help farmers to gain empowerment and prevent over-suppression that is currently happening because if over-supply continues to occur, fresh fruit bunches (TBS) will be priced cheaply and will not even be accommodated by companies. This was stated by the General Chairperson of SPKS, Mansuetus Darto.

Some important points of the Palm Moratorium Inpres that are relevant for oil palm farmers include the mapping of oil palm farmers in the forest area and APL (Other Use Areas), institutional revitalization, implementation of ISPO (Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil), allocation of 20% of forest area and HGU (Business Use Rights) and increase farmer productivity. The moratorium can also help increase the productivity of independent smallholders. The reality that occurs in the field shows that farmer productivity is less productive and is only able to produce 12 tons of TBS / ha per year. Ideally, the amount of production will reach 36 tons / ha per year.

Reduce Stock Coming Harvest Farmers Forced to Sell Coffee, http://www.hariansumutpos.com, 25 September 2012
Coffee farmers are forced to sell even the current price of coffee is still low. In fact, soon, Sumatra will enter the harvest season. Currently, the price of coffee beans ranged Rp15.500 per kilogram, while before the price of coffee is around Rp23.000 per kilogram. The fall in price, due to the manufacturer, the lower the purchase due to the fall in export demand as well.

Currently, demand for exports and the price of coffee beans from Indonesia weakened under the pretext of the economic crisis affected importers in the United States and Europe. Low demand and lower selling prices bid made almost stagnant export coffee beans, said Chairman of the Association of Indonesian Coffee Exporters (AICE) of North Sumatra.

Exporters choose 'wait and see' for fear of losing money at a rapid fluctuation and the trend is weakening. Importer to judge the price of coffee beans from Sumatra in particular is too high. Price ideal buyer in the range of U.S. $ 5 to 5.2 per kilogram, while the price of coffee at random in Medan is Rp.40 thousand to Rp.41 thousand per kilogram; Arabica coffee bean exports to August 2012, according to the data of origin certificate (SKA) still grew 8.8 percent compared to the same period last year; Arabica coffee export volume by 42, 240 million kg worth U.S. $ 263.832 million.