The distribution of sugar palm covers the Southeast Asian region which includes Indonesia, Sarawak, the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Burma as well as parts of South Asia including Assam, Pakistan and along the East coast of India (Miller, 1964)

In Indonesia, sugar palm is found in almost all regions, especially in 14 provinces: Papua, Maluku, North Maluku, North Sumatra, West Sumatra, West Java, Central Java, Banten, North Sulawesi, South Sulawesi, Southeast Sulawesi, Bengkulu, South Kalimantan and Nangroe Aceh Darussalam. The total area in the 14 provinces is around 70,000 ha. (Maliangkay 2008).

However, not all farmers want to produce good quality palm sugar, one of the reasons is because they are chasing the cheapest price, or are not aware of food safety. Of the several palm sugars that we purchased directly from farmers as samples for proximate analysis, only a small amount of palm sugar meets Indonesian national standards. This is reality.

Only a few groups of sugar palm farmers have had the luck to have been adopted by companies that trade palm sugar in granule form, or by industries that produce granulated palm sugar. Meanwhile, other farmers who are located on cliff slopes in remote areas, are still having a “price war” to get local consumers (usually the closest traditional market to their sugar palm production)

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