InfoSAWIT, PADANG – General Director of Plantation Ministry of Agriculture, Andi Nur Alam Syah said the government is trying to implement integrated palm oil governance, one ecosystem, and sustainable. The programs to go would be developing Pabrik Minyak Goreng (Pamigo), Peremajaan Sawit Rakyat (PSR), and Kelapa Sawit Tumpang Sari Tanaman Pangan (Kesatria).

“Directorate General of Plantation would adjust the regulations with the field condition. Hopefully in 2024 there would be plantations in one regulation so that the commodities, particularly, palm oil get the easy conditions,” Andi Nur said in a talkshow Penas XVI in Padang.

He also mentioned, palm oil is one mainstay commodity in Indonesia, it does produce not only oil but also become material to produce cosmetic, biofuel, and the waste could be processed to be fertilizer.

“That is why every smallholders should innovate, be creative, not only to develop the upstream, but also the downstream within the right support to get more creative and innovative derivative products,” he said, as in the official statement to InfoSAWIT, Monday (12/6/2023)

In the future, Andi continued, there would be palm oil products which are environmental and could penetrate the markets globally and would increase the revenue. (T2)