InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – One company that focuses on palm oil business is PT Jhonlin Agro Raya Tbk (JARR). It was established in 2014 and has been actively operating palm oil plantations since 2019.

In 2023, JARR did joint venture with affiliated company, PT Jhonlin Agro Lestari (JAL). The merger escalated not only assets of JARR but also optimized bureaucracy and control cost in short process. The plantation productivity also escalated because the plantations in JAL are relatively more mature and producing more.

Corporate Secretary JARR, Irena Cyntia told that the main focus of the company is processing palm oil (fresh fruit bunch) to be fatty acid methyl ester (FAME), a main material to produce biodiesel. The decision to join in Bursa Efek Indonesia (BEI) is about to develop new business, get better images and maintain the governance of the corporate.

After merger, area business rights of JARR gets more to be 27 thousand hectares and the plan to plant would be about 22 thousand hectares. JARR focuses to process FAME with the main market (biodiesel) for PT Pertamina Patra Niaga, PT Exxon Mobil Lubricant Indonesia, and PT AKRA Korporindo Tbk.

"The main markets of JARR would be about to fulfill the needs for the government’s program, which is, biodiesel 100 percent (B100) for PT Pertamina Patra Niaga," Irena Cyntia said, as quoted from kontan.co.id.

Prior in 2019, the company started constructing refinery mill and biodiesel mill to process FFB to be biodiesel within 1.500 ton per day – capacity or 450.000 tons per year.

In 2021, JARR accomplished palm cooking oil mill construction within 250 ton per day – capacity. On 4 August 2022, the company joined BEI with Rp 300 per stock – offer. It successfully got fund about Rp 366,8 billion after releasing 15,29% stocks to the public.

With this strategy, JARR is committed to keep contributing and developing biodiesel industries and would be the key actor heading to the future renewable energy from palm oil (sector). (T2)