InfoSAWIT, BLANGPIDIE - The regional government of Aceh Barat Daya (Abdya)signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with PT Cahaya Terang Alami (PT CTA), a Singaporean company to construct a palm oil factory (POF) within capacity 90 tons of fresh fruit bunch(FFB) per hour in the offfice of Abdya.
Regent of Abdya, Akmal Ibrahim, SH; Vice Regent, Muslizar, M.T.; the Secretary, Drs. Thamrin, and the assistants and Vice Chairman of Abdya Legislators, Romi Syah Putra; and the representatives of PT CTA, such as, the Director, Haikal Pangeran Mahdi, and Teuku Hadi, Yumaidar attended the ceremony.
Regent of Abdya, Akmal Ibrahim said, the MoU with PT CTA is the continuity of what Governor of Aceh , Irwandi Yusuf told on 14 August when inaugurating him, about the investor refinery in the district. “In the next three months, they would make business plans, and appraisal team to calculate the budget in the POF,” he said.
He also continued, after the business plans are done, in the early of 2018, PT CTA would construct POF as the agreement. The target is that in January 2019, the POF could be running. “In January 2019 we would operate the POF,” he said, as quoted from Tribunnews.com.
He also hoped, the POF in Abdya would make the FFB stable in price and would welfare the smallholders. For years, the people have got losses for there is no POF because the agents determined the FFB price. “Besides the region would have internal budget too,” he said.
Meanwhile, Director of PT CTA, Haikal Pangeran Mahdi said, the first investment to develop the POF would be Rp 100 million to have 40 to 90 tons FFB per hour. (T3)
