JAKARTA  - Besides environmental issue, employees in palm oil sectors should be considered. Just Malaysia, the country is difficult to hire employees. They should import them but they decrease their profits of CPO.

The fast palm oil plantation enlargement in Malaysia is not followed by the employees. So Malaysia depends on the mechanism to solve the difficulty of finding field employees in palm oil plantations for the decreasing Indonesian employees. Referring to the information from Indonesian Embassy in Malaysia, in 2013, Indonesian employees in Malaysia palm oil plantation sectors drastically decreased to be 38 thousands men which was 120 thousands men.

This condition of cource negatively effects to Malaysia’s plantation, which 5% to 10% of the fruit can be harvested. The domino effect from this situation will cut Malaysian CPO export profits about RM 2,5 billions or US$ 766 millions in every year.

In 2013 as written in Reuters, Malaysian CPO export decreased RM 45,27 billions (US$ 13,85 billions) or it was the lowest one since 2010 which the exports reached RM 52,99 billions.

This condition shows, Malaysian palm oil owners should face the difficult choice, increase the salary of the employees as the effort to maintain them or not quit working in their plantation.

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