InfoSAWIT, KUALA LUMPUR - Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) was running its conference on 28 November to 1 December 2022 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The conference should be the place for many stakeholders to discuss the trend, initiatives, and innovations in palm oil industries, namely identifying the challenges and solutions to realize sustainable palm oil in the world.

In RT RSPO this year, there was a resolution (GA19-2b) which Forum Petani Kelapa Sawit Berkelanjutan (Fortasbi) Indonesia proposed and supported by some groups, such as, FPP (Forest Peoples Programme), Yayasan Setara Jambi, LINKS, Sawit Watch, and others.

The resolution would encourage that RSPO should prioritize jurisdiction approach to accelerate sustainable palm oil standards, involve independent smallholders, and local people. The jurisdiction approach would be very helpful to accelerate RSPO standard implementation namely in legal conditions, developing strategies by involving regional governments in certification process. It is significant to involve regional governments to promote the sustainable palm oil standards.

Executive Director of Sawit Watch, Achmad Surambo said, it is good to implement jurisdiction approach because the governments would play its role to get the same collaboration namely where palm oil plantations are developing.

“We knew that the Government of Indonesia published a policy to improve palm oil governance through Rencana Aksi Nasional Kelapa Sawit Berkelanjutan as regulated in President’s Instruction Number 6 / 2019. We know that the policy would be in synergy with every work through jurisdiction approach to realize the ideas of sustainability,” Surambo said, as in the official statement to InfoSAWIT, Tuesday (29/11/2022). (T2)