InfoSAWIT, PAPUA – The representatives of Badan Pengawasan Keuangan dan Pembangunan (BPKP) West Papua Province did focus group discussion about Specific Goal of Audit result or hasil Audit Tujuan Tertentu (ATT) about palm oil industrial governance and revenue optimization in 2023. It was hybrid where the participants attended directly and online.

It was officially inaugurated by Head in duty of the representative of BPKP West Papua Province, Lepot Setyanto. In his speech, he emphasized that it is important to escalate palm oil industrial governance and revenue optimization within maximal approaches. He also encouraged the regional government, agencies, and related instances to get concrete things as the follow up of the audit result that BPKP did.

“It needs commitment and seriousness from every party so that the audit result would be well implemented. We have good will to escalate palm oil industrial governance to optimally get the results for the people in West Papua and Southwest Papua,” Lepot Setyanto said as InfoSAWIT quoted from the official page of BPKP, Friday (15/12/2023).

West Papua and Southwest Papua Province lay on about 10.294.600 hectares. There are 11 palm oil plantation companies that cultivate about 65.641,60 hectares in the two provinces.

In the focus group discussion, there were issues about palm oil industrial governace in the two, such as, palm oil plantations have no permit from the government, the plantations are not the same with the published permit, and they do not fully pay tax and retribution. (T2)