InfoSAWIT, NORTH ACEH– To support and accelerate Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) certification process for smallholders, the smallholders in North Aceh started meeting to establish internal control system (ICS).
Chairman of Serikat Petani Kelapa Sawit (SPKS) District of North Aceh, Abubakar AR said this was one way for independent smallholders to implement sustainable palm oil cultivation with the target not only in ISPO but also Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) certificate.
“We would get ISPO and RSPO certification process for independent smallholders that would lay about 1.000 hectares. They would be in four villages, they are, Seureuke and Lubok Pusaka in Sub district of Langkahan, then Cotgirek in Sub district of Cotgirek, and Buket Hagu in Sub district of Lhoksukon, District of North Aceh,” Abubakar who is also the Chairman of Koperasi Produsen Perkebunan Berkat Bunga Damai Cotgirek said to InfoSAWIT, Saturday (23/9/2023).
He also mentioned, the programs in ISPO would be, the first, Koperasi Berkat Bunga Damai in Village of Seureuke, Sub district of Langkahan that lay about 600 hectares; the second, the smallholders’ plantations in Village of Lubuk Pusaka, Sub district of Langkahan about 100 hectares,
The third, Village of Cotgirek, Sub district of Cotgirek about 200 hectares and the last, the plantations in Village of Buket Hagu, Sub district of Lhoksukon about 200 hectares. “The plantations are cultivated by independent smallholders in District of North Aceh,” Abu said.
As the official information to InfoSAWIT, the process to get ISPO and RSPO certification has been the same with what central SPKS and Animal Health, Livestock, and Plantation Agency District of North Aceh agreed with in Jakarta on 31 August 2023.
Some points of the agreement are about to escalate capacity and reinforce the smallholders’ institutions, facilitate ISPO acceleration certification for the members of SPKS North Aceh, and support to get smallholders replanting program acceleration. The agreement was signed by Head of Plantation, Ichsan that represented Animal Health, Livestock, and Plantation Agency District of North Aceh and General Secretary of SPKS, Mansuetus Alsy Hanu that represented central SPKS. (T2)
