Indonesia’s coconut commodity is currently in a fairly good condition in terms of exports. Based on data from the Ministry of Agriculture, coconut products can be exported in various forms, but still in accordance with market demand. Some of the exported coconut products include Coconut Crude Oil (CCO), CCO derivatives, Dessicated Coconut (DC), round coconut, coconut water and activated carbon.

Mercu Buana University held an Appreciation Night event with the theme of “Energy of Innovation” on October, 26th, 2018 as one of the series ro commemorate the 33rd anniversary of Universitas Mercu Buana. This event was held for the first time in order to give awards to stakeholders who have supported Universitas Mercu Buana.

TEI 2018 was officially opened on Wednesday, October, 24th, 2018 by the President of the Republic of Indonesia, Joko Widodo. In line with the government’s goal to boost export value, KARA through Sambu Group as a coconut processing industry player from Indonesia participated inTEI 2018 to introduce quality coconut processed products to open up new export opportunities.

Food Ingredients Asia (Fi Asia) is an annual international standard food and beverage raw material exhibition. This year, Indonesia will host the 2018 Fi Asia which will take place on October, 3rd – 5th , 2018 at JiExpo Kemayoran, Central Jakarta. t least 750 companies from 60 countries and more than 20,000 food and beverage industry professionals participated in this exhibition.KARA as one of the players in the food and beverage industry was also present at Fi Asia 2018 with the aim of providing education about the goodness of coconut and introducing quality coconut processed products. In addition, KARA through KARA Island also presents a variety of the latest innovative coconut products, such as Coconut Ice Cream, Coconut Cookies, Coconut Bread Loaf, Coconut Chewy, Almond Bar and 100% Indonesian Coconut Water.

Indonesia has enormous potential in coconut industry. Its potential could improve the nation’s economy if we optimal it. Until this day, there are 95 coconut-producing district in Indonesia and each area has more than 10,000 hectares, with the number of farmers more than 2 million people. That export was recorded at USD 510.14 million in 2010. And it increase twice to USD 1.21 billion in 2014. In 2014, Indonesia’s contribution reached 20.16 percent of the total world export value. Based on data from the Himpunan Industri Pengolahan Kelapa Indonesia (HIPKI), the total national demand for coconut in 2015 was 14.63 billion coconuts or worth USD 3.53 billion.

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