JAKARTA/TOKYO -- Indonesia will exclude crude palm oil from a planned palm oil export ban, according to a copy of an official letter from the country's agriculture ministry, in a major setback from what President Joko Widodo said was an embargo on the "raw materials of cooking oil."
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A worker loads palm fruit at a plantation in Indonesia's West Sulawesi Province. © Antara Foto/Reuters
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