The country of Indonesia Western New Guinea . The islands of Borneo and Western New Guinea are shared with other nations. Borneo (also known as Kalimantan) is shared with Malaysia and Brunei island of New Guinea with Papua New Guinea Indonesia 's total land area is slightly greater than 1.2 million square miles (the equivalent of Alaska , Texas , California and Montana Indonesia Indonesia island of Sumatra consists of the provinces of Daerah Istimewa Aceh, Riau, Jambi, Bengkulu, Lampung, and North, South, and West Sumatra . Indonesia 's region of Borneo is called Kalimantan, while Malaysia 's region of Borneo is called East Malaysia . On Borneo there are four Indonesian provinces, they are East, South, West and Central Kalimantan .
FAS Field Visits
Major oil producing provinces visited by FAS include: North Sumatra, Riau, and South Sumatra (Sumatera Selatan) on the island of Sumatra island of Borneo , field visits were conducted on the province of West Kalimantan island of Sumatra North Sumatra province. Since those early days, palm plantation development spread south and to the other areas of Indonesia South Sumatra . Even though the bulk of Indonesia’s production remains on Sumatra, 70 to 80 percent according to some sources, rapid expansion is occurring on the island of Borneo; the second largest producing area in Indonesia. In recent years, there has been a growing expansion of palm oil plantations on the island of Borneo —particularly in Central and West Kalimantan . Important, but secondary areas of expansion are Sulawesi and Western New Guinea (or West Papua ). Even with the expansion areas, Sumatra will continue to be the leading production center for the foreseeable future.
The following image is a satellite scene and FAS field travel routes (in yellow) that covered major palm oil producing provinces on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo .
Area Expansion
Over the next few years, the pace of Indonesian palm oil production is expected to dominate other producing countries and rise steadily, assuming continued high prices and favorable weather. This continued increase in production is a result of area expansion. It is the availability of land on Borneo and other previously non-developed areas that has allowed Indonesia West Papua have been opened up in recent years and have added significant area that only now is coming on-stream in terms of production. In addition to new areas of land developed, another reason for the growing production numbers is that the surge in planting activity during the past ten years is now beginning to be realized. There is several years lag time when palms are initially planted on the plantation until the first production of fruit bunches. Data on actual area planted to oil palm is not easily obtained. Where government data does exist, many in the industry believe that the government data is not as complete as it might be, often having production estimates lower than those of the industry. One proxy source of area data is oil palm seed sales. Data presented at the International Palm Oil Congress 2007 on seed sales reveals a rapid increase in demand, so much that seed producers have had difficultly keeping up with demand.
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