InfoSAWIT, Jakarta – The 11th National Conference of Indonesian Palm Oil Association (IPOA) would be running in Bali on 8 - 10 March 2023. This would be the event for candidates to be IPOA chairman which many IPOA branches proposed.
According to the administration to IPOA chairman election in the previous period, precisely in 2018, IPOA branches proposed some names (candidates) in national conference and would be decided as the candidates of the new IPOA chairman.
The candidates which derived from 14 IPOA branches would be three and would be processed in the national conference. The names would be announced and decided for only 10 names. From the 10 names, there would be top five names which IPOA members would decide.
Every name should be from the members that have votes, could propose three names and their election. From their election, top five names would be elected as candidates of IPOA chairman.
After that the top five candidates of IPOA chairman would be decided as format team that would elect the complete coordinators. If referring to the previous election, the most votes in acclamation would be elected as the new IPOA chairman.
For information, for each IPOA branch proposed three names, the repeated names from the branch could be as the election of members. In fact, what the members elect should refer to number one they would elect.
The ways of election, actually, would potential to make wrong election because the vote has principle, one man one vote. It is clear the members should refer to one name only. The question remains, how would be the election process of IPOA chairman in the next conference? We do not know still. (T1)
