Jakarta, May 12 -- The Ombudsman of Indonesia emphasized the importance of the government establishing a National Palm Oil Agency to improve governance of the palm oil industry and address related issues in a comprehensive and effective manner.

"There is one solution to improve governance: setting up a National Palm Oil Agency tasked with offering one-stop services to handle palm oil-related matters from the upstream to downstream sectors," Ombudsman member Yeka Hendra Fatika noted in a statement cited here on Monday.

Fatika made this proposal in a discussion in Jakarta on Wednesday (May 7), during which he offered the government several viable measures to overhaul palm oil governance in the country.

In addition to proposing the agency...