Harvest time: A worker gathers oil palm fruit bunches at a plantation in Lampung. Indonesia and Malaysia, the first- and second-largest palm oil producers, have threatened to challenge the European Union via the World Trade Organization if the EU continues to phase out palm oil from transportation fuel. (JP/R. Berto Wedhatama)The diplomatic effort to counter the negative campaign against Indonesia’s palm oil in the European Union is proving to be much harder than expected, said a senior minister who just returned from a diplomatic mission to end misconceptions about the product.The massive campaign against the use of palm oil in Europe has derived from a misunderstanding among Europeans that the commodity damages the environment, thus preventing Indonesia and other palm oil-producing countries from getting a fair hearing, Coordinating Economic Minister Darmin Nasution said. Earlier thi...