InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – To improve palm oil plantation governance, the government obliges planters both the companies, unions, and smallholders, report about their plantation until their permits. This would be implementing since 3 July to 3 August 2023. 

Coordinator Minister in Maritime and Investment, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan said, every party that has palm oil plantation should inform to the government, while the government itself established Palm Oil Industry Government Improvement and Revenue Optimization Taskforce according to President's Decision Number 9/2023.

The taskforce made report portal, Siperbun. Every party that has palm oil plantation should report through the portal. 

"Every company should report every information through the website since 3 July to 3 August 2023. Unions and smallholders would get pararel information, would get socialization about it independently," he said in a presa conference in Jakarta Pusat, Friday (12/6/2023).

Pandjaitan also mentioned, the taskforce is developing the portal to accomplish palm oil plantations in forest regions. After getting the data, if any party frauds their report, the taskforce would call and confirm.

He himself told that the government has satellite image and drone as the tools but the planters should report theirs independently.

“We have the rights to call if something is suspicious about data that we have. The planters would be called and should confirm permit adjustment about palm oil plantations that they have,” Pandjaitan said. (T2)