InfoSAWIT, PALANGKARAYA – Chief Deputy of Badan Pengawas Keuangan dan Pembangunan (BPKP) in Investigation, Agustina Arumsari said, palm oil taskforce is the collaborative action among the government’s institutions to accelerate and coordinate (palm oil plantation/industry governance.

This is about to improve data (about plantations and industries). Every related ministry that needs palm oil data could use every available data in Sistem Informasi Perizinan Perkebunan (Siperibun) application. “It would not be about upstream sector but also downstream sectors. It is about palm oil advantage regulation to improve palm oil governance in Indonesia,” she said, as InfoSAWIT quoted from the official page of Ministry of Agriculture, Sunday (9/7/203).

Agustina also mentioned, the output from Siperibun would be followed up as the available regulations and policies in each ministry/institution. The taskforce would accelerate to improve plantations to run optimally to get performance accountability of plantation business.

“Few job descriptions in the taskforce are to improve business permit data in plantation and to get self-reporting of business development through Siperibun,” Agustina said.

Meanwhile General Secretary of Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Bambang Hendroyono said, as one member in the taskforce, the available regulation would not be substituted but procedure operational standards would be reinforced.

“It needs to get the same understanding about the procedures, legal access, location permit, approve to forest release, and others to accelerate palm oil governance improvement well,” he said. (T2)