Palm-oil is inseparable from our daily lives, due to its varied products and utilities. The
research findings show that, firstly, Enlightenment aiming at raising human's dignity
through ratio development is drawn into technical-oriented ideology. For the sake of
economic growth, political stability acts as the ultimate condition, so that the palm-oil
estate itself has kept people away from democracy and political freedom. Secondly,
success of Indonesia in achieving export target and state income is an achievement, when
measured merely by quantitative framework. However, in order to understand the process
comprehensively, qualitative dimension of the success also needs to be considered. In
fact, such expansion fails qualitatively. It can be seen from the emergence of land rights
conflict and dependency-relation between farmer and palm-oil companies, as well as
environmental problems as a result of the expansion. The quantitative success aiming at
achieving certain targets has sacrificed the usage of palm-oil for the people and
environment
