InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Chairman of Serikat Petani Kelapa Sawit (SPKS) East Aceh, Abu Bakar said, the way on Sub district of Cot Girek, North Aceh is very bad. The smallholders and the people are difficult to pass through namely in the rain.
It has many big holes and been muddy. The people should get what it takes. Not only that the trucks that transported smallholders’ fresh fruit bunch (FFB) should get losses for being stuck in the muddy way.
Abu bakar assumed, the broken way might happen for many FFB trucks of PT Perkebunan Nusantara (PTPN) I passed through. Unfortunately, when it was bad, it was not really improved. Abu also admitted, many companies covered up the holes but with sand from the sides of the road. As the result, when it is rain, it gets muddy and difficult to pass through.
“We hope the Enterprises company would improve the way where its trucks always pass through. At least, the company should cover up by sand and stone so that in the rain, it will not be muddy again,” he said to InfoSAWIT in the spare time of the second Indonesian Palm Oil Smallholders Conferences & Expo of 2022 (2nd IPOSC & Expo 2022) in Palembang, Tuesday (29/11/2022).
In fact, the broken way is not only in Sub district of Cot Girek. Abu continued it happens in every single year. Why does not the company improve the way by using or delivering their corporate social responsibility (CSR) program to minimize the broken way?
“We have bad access. If this keeps happening, we might be thought not to understand this condition. We also hope, the central government would control the path. We are in misery now. We want the way fixed. But if it does not happen, what should we do? It always happens that we have to stay in the same location for two nights to transport FFB. We got losses,” Abu Bakar said. (T2)
