InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Data released by Central Bureau of Statistic (CBS) revealed that palm oil plantations in land used and crude palm oil (CPO) production in 2028 significantly escalated compared to years before. It happened for the increasing administrator palm oil plantation companies that made the plantations laid on to be 14,33 million hectares.

In 2019 to 2022, palm oil plantations in land used hardly increased stagnant. In 2022 they could be about 15,34 million hectares.

They developed in 26 provinces, such as, in Sumatera and Kalimantan, West Java, Banten, Central Sulawesi, South Sulawesi, Southeast Sulawesi, West Sulawesi, Gorontalo, Maluku, North Maluku, Papua, and West Papua.

In 2022, Riau Province was the biggest palm oil producer with the plantations laying on about 2,87 million hectares or 18,70 percent of total palm oil plantations in di Indonesia. Of the numbers, Riau produced 8,74 million tons CPO according to the provincial plantation and production in 2022.

As InfoSAWIT quoted from the official page of CBS, palm oil plantation width according to business status in 2023 did not significantly changed. Just like the previous years, land mastery was dominated by big private companies that laid on about 8,58 million hectares or 56% of the plantations in national scale, then smallholders’ plantations that mastered 6,21 million hectares or 40,51 percent, and the rests 0,55 million hectares or 3,57 percent by government’s companies. (T2)