InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – According to Palm Oil Plantation Fund Management Agency (PFMA), fund realization for palm oil plantation human resource development program in 2015 to 2023 reached Rp 365 Billion.
The numbers significantly increased in every year. In 2022 the realization reached Rp 97,6 billion or significantly increased than it in 2021 that reached Rp 67,4 billion.
Those who joined the program by 2023 reached 12.496 participants of trainings, and 4.265 students that got scholarship program. Training program ran in almost regions (provinces) where palm oil grows in Indonesia.
Director of PFMA, Eddy Abdurrachman said in 2023 the institution approved memorandum of understanding to fund 13 educational institutions within multiyear program starting from Diploma (D)1, D2, D3, D4, and undergraduate (S1) program with the numbers of cooperation reaching Rp 313,9 billion and the students that got scholarship reaching 2000 men. The fund support for 11 training institutions reached Rp 46,5 billion and the numbers of training participants reached 3.241 men.
Eddy also said, palm oil plantation human resource development program is important to realize sustainable palm oil industries.
“And one program that PFMA focuses on in the strategic plans besides other programs to get upstream to downstream sector development,” Eddy said, as in the official statement to InfoSAWIT, Wednesday (2/8/2023). (T2)
