InfoSAWIT, TANA TIDUNG – To get the solution about palm oil dividend between PT. Pipit Citra Perdana (PCP) and Koperasi Menjelutung Perdana Lestari, the Regency of Tana Tidung facilitated a meeting to get the final agreement. Head of Small and Medium Business, Trade and Industry Agency, Hardiani Yusri said that some issues about dividend allocation had no solution and there would be the next meeting.

Prior, it was concluded that Fishery, Food and Agriculture Agency would be supervise the progress in the plasma plantation that would deliver good prospects for the villagers. From the report, the plasma (smallholders) got loss the dividend for about Rp 2,1 billion in 2020 – 2023.

In 2024, even though it still operates, the cooperation involved in the cultivation more actively and the data should be more responsible to be delivered. The next agreement was that there would be external audit about the dividend in the union.

Besides having external audit, there would be the changing agreement of memorandum of understanding between the two parties after the external audit would be exposed. The Regency of Tana Tidung should actively facilitate the assignment of external auditor to confirm the transparency and accountability in the problem.

“When the external auditors work, the union agreed to open the portal to the plantations and PT. PCP would operate in their plantations as usual,” the note of the agreement mentioned, as what InfoSAWIT read, Saturday (5/10/2024).

The agreement should deliver clarification for both sides, optimize the economic advantages for the peole that involved as plasma smallholders. (T2)