InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – In the nineth handover of Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) Certificate, the government gave the certificates to 40 companies.

Head of ISPO Commission Secretariat, Azis Hidayat, said, 40 companies got ISPO certificates. Until now, there have been 304 companies, one plasma smallholder association, and one independent smallholder union getting the certificates. “The areas certified by ISPO have been reaching 1,882 million hectares within the certified production reaching about 8,15 million tons,” he recently said in Jakarta.

Meanwhile, General Director of Plantation, Ministry of Agriculture, Bambang, said, about 546 companies, 4 KUD/KSU of the plasma areas, and one independent area association have proposed to get ISPO certification process.

From the ‘Laporan Hasil Akhir (LHA)’ which ISPO Commission Secretariat got, there have been 376 reports. The ISPO which has been published reached 306 or about 81% of the total report proposing to get ISPO certificate. There have been about 70 companies that have been in verification process. “11 companies are postponed to get ISPO certificate. The reason is that the administration of business license and the area permit,” he said.

One company getting ISPO certificate was PT. Poliplant Sejahtera. It is the subsidiary of Cargill Tropical Palm Ltd., in West Kalimantan.  (T2)