InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – When the government wants to improve palm oil plantation/industrial governance, General Director of Plantation Ministry of Agriculture has done concrete things.

Director of Plantation Product Marketing and Process (PPMP), General Directorate of Plantation, Ministry of Agriculture, Prayudi Syamsuri has done the best to improve the governance by publishing new regulations in association with palm oil plantations, such as, every planter should get self-report through Sistem Informasi Perizinan Perkebunan (Siperibun).

The other is to get data about smallholders/people’s plantations to get cultivation documents. He also told that low plantation productivity, and fresh fruit bunch (FFB) price are the issues to be solved,

He also told some issues to be solved, such as, the coordination between the regional and central governments to develop palm oil plantation business. The holistic coordination would be very significant to get plantation data to improve these industries.

“Every planter (the corporates and smallholders) should obey every available regulation in palm oil regions, and market access should be traceable. These are the focuses of the government,” Prayudi said to InfoSAWIT.

The government has established palm oil plantation/industrial governance task force by hoping to accelerate and reinforce plantation business permit governance in data – base and there would be no corruption. There would be development, monitoring on plantation business, coordination reinforcement among ministries/institutions in national and regional scales in plantation sector.

“Finally, the three goals eventually would escalate easiness of doing business and would optimize plantation as one main economic sector nationally,” he said.  (T2)

Source: Majalah InfoSAWIT, October 2023