InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Just it is regulated in Rencana Aksi Nasional Kelapa Sawit Berkelanjutan (RAN KSB) that has five components, which the fifth one is to encourage and accelerate Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) certification and escalate palm oil product market access, the government keeps encouraging every planter to get ISPO certificate.

Musdhalifah said, ISPO has actually been implementing since 2011 through the regulation of minister of agriculture (RMA). It was renewed in 2015. In 2020 president’s regulation was published about ISPO and perfected by RMA about ISPO.

“By the publication of President’s Regulation Number 44 / 2020, it is hoped that ISPO certification governance could be better. RAN KSB would also encourage ISPO implementation,” she said to InfoSAWIT.

ISPO certification is still voluntary for smallholders. But the government encouraged fund supports for them to get ISPO certification which is regulated in RMA about Fund Advantages from Palm Oil Plantation Fund Management Agency (PFMA).

Director of Plantation Product Marketing and Process, General Directorate of Plantation, Ministry of Agriculture, Prayudi Syamsuri said that the government has prepared 140 ISPO certificates but no institution register to get proposal.

“If (one institution) gets ISPO, the government would deliver red carpet by delivering infrastructure helps,” Prayudi said in Diskusi Nasional Sawit Berkelanjutan with the theme “Mendorong Peran Aktif Koperasi dalam Peningkatan Produktivitas Kebun dan Percepatan Sertifikasi Berkelanjutan Petani Sawit Swadaya di Indonesia,” in Jakarta that InfoSAWIT attended by the late of July 2023.

He also said, the world needs sustainable palm oil certification and acknowledgement should be delivered by the people to give real description about palm oil plantation development in Indonesia. “That palm oil is developed not by damaging environment,” he emphasized. (T2)