InfoSAWIT, SAMPIT – After the clash between the villagers around palm oil plantations of PT Bangun Jaya Alam Permai (BJAP) in the early of July 2023, there was mediation for the villagers from six villages and 1 village in District of Seruyan.

Vice Regent of Seruyan, Iswanty said, the mediation was with head of sub district, police chief of Seruyan, daily chairman of DAD Seruyan, Damang, representatives of the company, heads of villages. It came to a conclusion. “The company agreed to develop plasma plantations (20 percent) for the villagers,” Iswanty said, Saturday (22/7/2023) as quoted from Borneonews.

It was the fifth mediation that District of Seruyan, the company, and the villagers did. The two previous medition did not came to a conclusion.

Some conclusions were PT BJAP would develop 20 percent from its palm oil plantations or about 13.500 hectares for the villagers in Village of Rantau Pulut, Village of Bukit Buluh, Village of Mugi Penyuhu, Village of Tumbang Bai, Village of Ayawan, Village of Sukamandang, and Village of Durian Tunggal.

Head of sub district of Seruyan Tengah, heads of the villages should establish cooperation, get coordination with agency of population and civil registration to know who would get palm oil plantation development from PT BJAP and should be proposed to Regent of Seruyan to publish a document about candidates of smallholder.

The area candidates would wait for the coordination result from Ministry of Environment and Forestry in Jakarta that Regent of Seruyan and villagers would do and facilitated by PT BJAP.

When everything is in process, the villagers should not demonstrate or massively harvest that would disturb security particularly in palm oil plantations of PT BJAP.

“I hope this would be the best gift for the villagers from me when I would not be as vice regent of Seruyan anymore. This should be a solution for them,” Iswanty said. (T2)