InfoSAWIT, UNGARAN – It is not easy to get competent human resources (HR) to support plantation sub-sector development. It needs continuous process and learning and also real action. The process itself can be from education and training at educational institution in vocation level up to undergraduate level to get qualified graduate. These need preparation for millennial planter candidates.
Ministry of Agriculture through General Directorate of Plantation did appreciate the students who now study at Akademi Komunitas Perkebunan Yogyakarta (AKPY). In 2022/2023 there are about 310 students that General Directorate of Plantation recommended to get scholarship of SDMPKS through the fund from Palm Oil Plantation Fund Management Agency (PFMA) at AKPY for 2 study programs, they are, Prodi Pemeliharaan Kelapa Sawit and Pembibitan Kelapa Sawit. The students getting the scholarship are from planters, families of planters, and other HR in palm oil plantation sectors.
Director of Plantation Protection General Directorate of Plantation Ministry of Agriculture, Hendratmojo Bagus Hudoro that represented General Director of Plantation at Learning Factory Diploma 1 AKPY in 2022/2023, told, the learnin factory is about to get more competent students to be ready when working in big palm oil plantation companies or in smallholders’ plantations.
“Besides, the students are directly knowing kinds of works and palm oil cultivation,” he said, as InfoSAWIT quoted from the official page of Ministry of Agriculture, Wednesday (29/3023).
Bagus also told, the Diploma 1 students at AKPY would get internship in June 2023 and directly recruited by some palm oil plantation companies, and as developers in smallholders replanting program (SRP).
“After getting internship and graduating from AKPY, most of you would work in many palm oil plantation companies in Indonesia. Even before you get internship, many companies are in line to hire you. This is incredible for the graduate of AKPY where the graduates are competent and ready to work in palm oil industries,” he said.
He continued, the future palm oil plantation development would depend on young generations with their ability to master research and technology as the strategies to escalate production and productivity.
In 2023, the targets to get scholarship of SDMPKS would increase twice compared to 2022, that reaches 2.000 students. He thought, this is the commitment of General Directorate of Plantation to provide competent HR in palm oil plantations to fulfill industrial needs and in SRP
“That is why every student of Diploma 1 at AKPY, lecturer, and other parties in this learning factory could help the socialization of Scholarship of SDMPKS in 2023,” Bagus said. (T2)
