InfoSAWIT,  JAKARTA–The good will of the stakeholders in palm oil industry could improve the image in the national and international level. One thing to forbid palm oil import in other countries might be about human rights issue. The industry might be assumed to break the human right of the workers.

Plantation sector is assumed as the biig source of the budget for the country, so every people should get the benefit of the industry. “The labors in the company should get the salary and benefit properly too,” General Direcctor of Pembinaan Pengawasan Ketenagakerjaan dan Keselamatan dan Kesehatan Kerja, Ministry of Labour, Sugeng Priyanto said in the official stament recently.

The Dialog, Toward Decent Work For All in Indonesia's Palm Oil Sector discussed Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil System (ISPO). ISPO urged the business world to increase the awareness of the stakeholders to improve every aspect in environment and labor too.

It could increase the competitiveness from Indonesia.  “We would increase the acceptance of ISPO in the international world,” Chairman of ISPO Secretariat, Aziz Hidayat said.

Director Sector International Labour Organization(ILO) Geneva, Alette Van Leur said, the stakeholders need to have open mind for it would elaborate the issue about labour in many forums. “It possible, the standard of labour in Indonesia would the the International Benchmark,” he said.(T3)