InfoSAWIT, MAKASSAR - Asosiasi Petani Kelapa Sawit Indonesia (Apkasindo) knew that Badan Pengawas Perdagangan Berjangka Komoditi (Bappebti) planned to postpone the establishment of crude palm oil (CPO) exchange in Indonesian version. Out of nowhere, some smallholders are disappointed.
As in the official statement to InfoSAWIT, Bappebti postpone the plan so that the regulation would not crus other regulations.
Head of Bappebti, Didid Noordiatmoko said that by having precautionary principles, he wanted to maintain that every policy and regulation which are being formulated would not be against to others. The government has formulated three policy drafts and technical regulations about Indonesian CPO exchange.
The first, Draft of Substitution of Regulation of Minister of Trade Number 50 / 2022. The second, Draft of Regulation of Bappebti about Technical Regulation to Implement Physical Trade of CPO; and the third, Draft of Ordinance Regulation of CPO Physical Trade.
Meanwhile, Chairman of Apkasindo South Sulawesi Province, H. Badaruddin Puang Sabang proposed to Central Apkasindo to have peaceful demonstration if Bappebti may not be serious about CPO exchange (in Indonesian version).
“The smallholders are pressed and get much poorer because CPO tender at PT Kharisma Pemasaran Bersama Nusantara (KPBN) got no increasing price though CPO in Malaysia and Rotterdam got increasing. As the result, smallholders’ fresh fruit bunch (FFB) production gets cheaper in Indonesia if referring to CPO tender at KPBN,” he said, as in the official statement to InfoSAWIT.
Badaruddin hoped, CPO exchange in Indonesian version should be immediately published so that Indonesia would have is own reference price and it is normal as the biggest CPO producer in the world
“CPO exchange is the other form of the independence of Indonesia from the mainstay commodity. The smallholders and workers might be 17 million in Indonesia and support Ministry of Trade to realize CPO price in Indonesia. We hope this could be the special present from Ministry of Trade to smallholders in the 78th Independence - day of Indonesia,” Badar said. (T2)
