InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – As part of industries in natural resource – base in Indonesia, palm oil business that focuses on the cultivation is taken to escalate the villagers to urban’s' welfare to go forward and develop.
The industries in natural resource – base in Indonesia, particularly palm oil play the significant roles to develop the economy. Cultivating palm oil plantations would not be only planting seeds, harvesting fresh fruit bunch, but also developing the brighter future for the villagers and urban people. When palm oil plantations develop, there would be big impacts for the people’s welfare and encouraging economic development sustainably.
Palm oil plantations are mostly in remote areas where there are big potentials to get economic changes. For the plantations develop, the local economy does too, stimulate the economic activities, starting from the local trade until the increasing income in the society.
According to economic development nationally, it could be seen that the people’s economy around palm oil plantations got increased. This was not instant but from the long term – investment and cultivation carefully. Superior seeds that were planted, started showing the results after about 30 months or 2,5 years. When palm oil trees started to deliver fruit, monthly harvest would be starting continuously. This would escalate the local people’s income and welfare.
The economic expert, Lincolin Arsyad said the economic development in one region always came with the economic structure changes. It could mean as the increasing gross domestic product if it ran the same with the increasing population in one region.
In association with palm oil plantations, this means to get new workers/labors, such as, to harvest, nursery. This would escalate the needs of capital to purchase fertilizers and other tools. It means, every phase of palm oil plantation development would deliver the positive for the economy locally and nationally.
The facts showed palm oil plantation development would not only encourage the economic progress and escalate the plantation companies’ welfare but also the people around. As time goes by, the villagers’ economy gets activated, ans sustainable development would be realized.
The successful key in palm oil plantation business should be having the synergy between the companies and the local people. The harvests from the plantations should not be the main source of income but also be the significant pillar to encourage other economic development in (a) regions. When the plantations successfully develop, the villagers’ welfare would be increasing, creating domino effects that would reinforce the economy.
In the ideal future scenario, the success of palm oil plantation development would widely deliver impacts for the villagers’ economy that develops fast. This would encourage the urban people’s economy, create better and more welfare environment. Palm oil plantation companies would play the big roles and become the foundation for sustainable, inclusive, and equal development.
Palm oil plantations should not be businesses only. These are hopes and the future. When staring the future, it would be important to prioritize sustainable cultivation and have good and strong synergy between the companies and the people to make sure that nowadays economic progress would be strong base for the next generations. Palm oil plantations with the potential would be ready to be the main pillars in more sustainable, brighter, and welfare development in Indonesia. (*)
Editorial Majalah InfoSAWIT Edisi Juli 2024
