InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Coordinator Ministry in Maritime and Investment announced that the government prevented the revenue losses deriving from coal sectors. This prevention was successfully managed by digital system known as Sistem Informasi Mineral dan Batu Bara (Simbara). Not only in coal sector, the government involved crude palm oil (CPO) industries to get the same output.

Deputy in Maritime Resource Coordination, Coordinator Ministry in Maritime and Investment, M. Firman Hidayat said that digitally monitoring system in CPO started this year. Prior, palm oil taskforce encouraged self – report (through Sistem Informasi Perizinan Perkebunan/Siperibun) by palm oil plantation companies. As the result, the companies registering it, drastically increased from 959 to be 2.139 companies and they are digitally connected.

“Besides in coal sector, we would do in palm oil sector. We have been doing it since in the midst of this year,” Firman said in an online press conference, Friday (22/12/2023).

Digitalization delivered the positivity to its governance and revenue. Firman said that every data gathered would be and can be used by every ministry/institution to improve the governance.

For example, though a company has been registered in General Directorate of Tax, the width of its reported area was narrower than it that was registered in Siperibun. But by the digitalization, General Directorate now has certain data.

He also told the advantages of data extensification. The first information was not recorded in the directorate but after having Siperibun, it would enable the directorate to be effectively monitoring the companies (to pay tax). This contributes not only to get revenue but also to solve issues in palm oil sectors that relate to forest areas.

Though commodity price, including CPO gets cheaper this year, digitalization in Simbara, Siperibun, and others would prove to be the effective things to minimize the potential losses and corruption. (T2)