InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA - Director of Plantation Product Marketing and Process, Prayudi Syamsuri told that ISPO certificate achievement is still left behind because it just covered 5,6 million hectares, or about 37,08 percent. That is why to solve the issue, the main focus should be about to escalate (the roles of) institutions in this industry.

He also mentioned that his institution is committed to reinforce institution to face the challenge(s) to get more ISPO certificate. In this context, he asked for PFMA to deliver financial support to get cultivation document. “The groups of smallholders that have been implementing ISPO certification process should get registered according to the infrastructure program,” he said in a public discussion and press conference that SPKS conducted on Wednesday (3/4/2024) in Jakarta that InfoSAWIT attended.

To optimize fund use, Prayudi emphasized that it is important to propose efficient and right targets. The process would be directly supervised by related parties to confirm the smoothness and effectiveness.

He also said that it is significant to discuss and revise ISPO implementation. It should be about palm oil downstream aspect and adjusting ISPO status to be mandatory or voluntary and hoped that the regulation revision process by Ministry of Agriculture should accelerate the solution and ISPO could be implemented more effectively and much larger.

“Assessment model would be perfect more to minimize the spent and accelerate ISPO certification process and the burden in PFMA would be less and be diverted to other unions,” Prayudi said.. (T2)