-DAWN - Business; October 02, 2007

Published October 2, 2007
JAKARTA, Oct 1: Indonesian palm oil prices were mixed on Monday with little fresh demand-supply news while a government decision to subsidise cooking oil still put pressure on the olein market.

The state market centre in Jakarta sold crude palm oil at 7,382 rupiah ($0.808) a kg on Monday, up from 7,369 rupiah on Friday.

Local demand is pushing up the prices, said an official at the centre which sells palm oil from state plantations.

But producers in North Sumatra