INDONESIA PLANS TO BUILD PALM OIL TERMINAL Indonesia will build a crude palm oil terminal at a new port on Batam island, south of Singapore, Research and Technology Minister Yusuf Habibie said. The terminal will be able to handle 2.1 mln tonnes of crude palm oil from new plantations in northern Sumatra and western Kalimantan (Borneo), he said. A tender for engineering work on the Asia Port project will be offered mid-year. Habibie did not say when the terminal was expected to be operational.