InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Regional Board of Komite Nasional Pemuda Indonesia (KNPI), Riau Province suspected the protests that many organizations on behalf of smallholders, did.
Chairman of KNPI Riau, Larshen Yunus said European Union Commission officially inaugurated European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) on 6 December 2022 to be immediately implemented. The regulation would be about to confirm that every consumer in European Union should not purchase commodity which derived from deforestation. One element clearly mentioned and categorized is palm oil as high risk – commodity.
“We have to emphasize that though EUDR would have something to do with one mainstay product from Indonesia, which is, palm oil, demonstration would not be giving solution. It would escalate other people to get suspicious,” he said, as in the official statement to InfoSAWIT, Thursday (30/3/2023).
He said, Riau for instance. There is no solution about palm oil plantations in forest regions. Many sources mentioned, Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Commission V Indonesian Legislators, or experts concentrated on palm oil. They told that they are worried about conflict and mass to come if palm oil plantations in forest regions are ignored for the plantations delivered loss for the revenue. The point is that wallahuallam bissawab," he said.
The alumnus from Sekolah Vokasi Mediator Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) Yogyakarta told, no need to demonstrate. Some protesters in many smallholders’ organizations namely the coordinators, in fact, took selfie with many generals and high officials in Indonesia.
He encouraged others namely the young generation to take care of this country from comprador people, take back important sectors namely palm oil in Indonesia from the corruptors.
Imagine, the widest palm oil plantations are in Indonesia, namely in Riau Province. But why are the people still living in poverty? Many persons or groups still bargain on behalf of smallholders.
“Land, area, palm oil plantation mobsters in forest regions. Illegal businesses. Many who have been approved to be guilty still deal with the government’s area by having business permit. These are enough,” he said.
He also takes other youth organizations namely KNPI to consolidate, reinforce, and prepare fights to corruptors, compradors, and land cockroaches, fight high level – speculation, fight everyone that gets protection on behalf of smallholders. These kinds of people are stakeholders that master hundreds or even thousand hectares of palm oil plantations.
“If not us, who would it be? If not now, when would it be? Come on everyone, be proactive and care. Do social control. Watch every party that is proven guilty in illegal palm oil plantation mastery namely in forest regions,” he said. (T2)
